Lester John Holloway (born 22 July 1970) is a British journalist and editor, as well as a campaigner and local politician.

Career

Born in

Shepherd's Bush Shepherd's Bush is a suburb of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan. Although primarily residential in character, its ...

, London, Holloway began his media career as a reporter for ''

Eastern Eye The ''Eastern Eye'' is a British weekly newspaper, published every Friday. It was created in 1989 and was first published by ''The Guardian'', before becoming a standalone newspaper. History Sarwar Ahmed founded the ''Eastern Eye'' from hi ...

'', a weekly newspaper published by Ethnic Media Group, in 1999. He later became News Editor at '' The Voice'', and was editor of the ''

New Nation ''New Nation'' was a weekly newspaper published in the United Kingdom, UK for the Black British community. The newspaper was launched in November 1996 by Richard Adeshiyan, the founding Editor who gave the title its name. the newspaper was Bri ...

'' newspaper from January 2008 until January 2009, when the paper ceased production due to its parent company Ethnic Media Group going into administration.Paul McNally & Sally Newall
"Potential buyers emerge for New Nation newspaper"
''Press Gazette'', 23 January 2009. He was New Media Manager at the campaign group

Operation Black Vote Operation Black Vote (OBV) is a British Independent (politician), non-partisan and not-for-profit, nonprofit national organisation established in 1996, which addresses the Black British and ethnic minority democratic deficit. OBV uses Voter regis ...

between June 2009 and March 2010, and worked fo
The Runnymede Trust
and the TUC, before returning to The Voice as Editor in 2021. Prior to

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

, Holloway was a local authority councillor ( Labour Party) in the

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London boroughs, London borough in West London and which also forms part of Inner London. The borough was formed in 1965 as the London Borough of Hammersmith from the merger of the former Metr ...

, between 1994 and 1998, representing the College Park and Old Oak Ward. He left the Labour Party in 2000 after nine years, and rejoined in 2017. In 2024 he falsely accused the Manx flag of being a symbol of the extreme right on X.

References

External links

* * Ian Burrell
"Lester Holloway: 'Victim stories have had their day in black papers
''

The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...

'', 5 May 2008
Lester Holloway profile at ''The Guardian''
1970 births Black British journalists British male journalists British republicans Living people People from Shepherd's Bush {{UK-journalist-stub