Lester Holloway

{{short description|British journalist and editor (born 1970)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2009}}

'''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, London, Holloway began his media career as a reporter for ''Eastern Eye'', 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'' newspaper from January 2008 until January 2009,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.minoritystudents.net/node/887?q=node/888 |title=Welcome minoritystudents.net – Justhost.com |publisher=Minoritystudents.net |accessdate=2018-01-11}}</ref> when the paper ceased production due to its parent company Ethnic Media Group going into administration.<ref name="Admin">Paul McNally & Sally Newall, [https://pressgazette.co.uk/potential-buyers-emerge-for-new-nation-newspaper/ "Potential buyers emerge for New Nation newspaper"], ''Press Gazette'', 23 January 2009. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222034248/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42904&c=1 |date=22 February 2012}}</ref> He was New Media Manager at the campaign group Operation Black Vote between June 2009 and March 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com |title=Operation Black Vote's blog |publisher=Operationblackvote.wordpress.com |accessdate=2018-01-11}}</ref> and worked for [https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/lack-of-diversity-undermines-the-future-of-the-mass-media The Runnymede Trust] and the TUC, before returning to The Voice as Editor in 2021.

Prior to journalism, Holloway was a local authority councillor (Labour Party) in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, between 1994 and 1998, representing the College Park and Old Oak Ward.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} He left the Labour Party in 2000, after nine years, and rejoined in 2017.

Holloway was influential in the formation of the organisation ''Friends of Wormwood Scrubs''.<ref>Lindo, D., "Defending our local patch" in ''The RSPB Magazine'', Winter/Spring 2026, page 78</ref>

In 2024 he falsely accused the Manx flag of being a symbol of the extreme right on X.

In a deleted Instagram post Lester stated, "There should be no majority White roads in the UK".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/lesterjholloway/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=www.instagram.com}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141014223458/http://lesterholloway.com/ Lester Holloway website.]}} * Ian Burrell, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/lester-holloway-victim-stories-have-had-their-day-in-black-papers-821015.html "Lester Holloway: 'Victim stories have had their day in black papers{{'"}}], ''The Independent'', 5 May 2008 * [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lesterholloway Lester Holloway profile at ''The Guardian'']

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