Michael Best
Date of birth: Not known Place of birth: Barbados
Marital status & family: Divorced
Best known for: West midland's correspondent for the Voice
Honours & accolades: No information
Mike Best is a former editor of Britain's pioneering popular newspaper The Voice. He took over the reins in 1998 from editor-in-chief Annie Stewart, having previously helmed The Weekly Journal.
Best came to the fore as a print journalist with the Voice newspaper in the mid-eighties, having come across from BBC Radio.
He was appointed West Midlands regional correspondent for the Voice in 1996. The Barbados born journalist oversaw the winding-up of black broadsheet newspaper the Weekly Journal before being given editorial control at Britain's most popular black newspaper the Voice.
Best faced the daunting task of boosting the paper's circulation against its ever popular rival, New Nation.
Just before the death of Voice proprietor Val McCalla in 2002, Best was replaced. He had courted controversy months earlier by declaring Police 'Stop and Search' tactics a good tool in combatting gun crime within the Black community.
...He oversaw the winding-down of the Weekly Journal... he now faces the daunting task - boosting circulation.
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