The Argus (Brighton)
local newspaper based in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex
The Argus is a local newspaper based in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England, with editions serving the city of Brighton and Hove and the other parts of both East Sussex and West Sussex. The newspaper covers local news, politics and sport, including the city's largest football club, Brighton & Hove Albion FC.
History
Founded in 1880, and for many years known as the Evening Argus, the newspaper is owned by Newsquest (since 1999, part of the US Gannett media group) which in 1996 bought The Argus and its sister Westminster Press titles from the provincial papers group's parent, the Pearson Group.
The Argus reached a peak circulation of 100,000 in the early 1980s but, like most of its counterparts in the British regional press, has since experienced a considerable decline in sales. In the period December 2010 to June 2011, the paper had an average daily circulation of 24,949 but by the period January to June 2013, average daily sales had dropped to 16,622. For the period July to December 2017 average daily circulation had fallen to 10,581.
The Argus was forced to postpone celebrations of its 140th anniversary in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporters from the publication appeared in a Channel 4 News feature broadcast in February 2021, looking at how the pandemic impacted Brighton.
The newspaper was highly commended in 2021 at the Society of Editors' Regional Press Awards in the daily newspaper of the year category.
Controversies
In February 2018 The Argus was found by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) to have breached its Editors' Code of Practice with regard to a story which it had published the previous September. IPSO found that the newspaper had behaved in a discriminatory way in its reporting of a court case by describing the plaintiff as an "amputee" in a headline and referring to his disability in the body of the article, in spite of the fact that the crime of which he was accused was "plainly irrelevant to his physical disability".
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