{{Short description|British newspaper editor (1930–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} '''Anthony John Miles''' (18 July 1930 – 14 April 2018), better known as '''Tony Miles''', was a British newspaper editor.
Miles grew up in [[High Wycombe]]. After attending the [[Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe]] from 1942 to 1946,<ref>''The Wycombiensian'', Magazine of the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, May 1971</ref> he worked on the ''[[Middlesex Advertiser]]'', ''[[Nottingham Guardian]]'' and ''[[Evening Argus]]'', before joining the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' in 1954, as a feature writer. In 1966, he was appointed as an assistant editor, then the following year as associate editor, before becoming overall editor of the newspaper in 1971.<ref name="whowaswho">"[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U27428/MILES_Anthony_John MILES, Anthony John]", ''[[Who Was Who]]''</ref>
Miles held the editorship for three years, following which he was appointed as Editorial Director of the Mirror Group, for a few years also serving as its chairman. He also sat on the [[Press Council (UK)|Press Council]] and served as a director of [[Reuters]]. In 1984, he stood down from his remaining British posts, unhappy with [[Robert Maxwell]]'s control of the ''Mirror'',<ref>[[Roy Greenslade]], ''Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda'', pp.397-398</ref> and moved to the [[United States]], where he became an Executive Publisher with the Globe Communications Corporation, publisher of the ''[[National Examiner]]'', until the early 1990s.<ref name="whowaswho" />
Miles died at the age of 87 on 14 April 2018 at Highgate Nursing Home, London.
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