Media contacts
If you notice that any details are incorrect please phone or email to let us know. Prior House 6 Tilbury Place Newspapers in Brighton Brighton BN2 0GY Argus & Leader: Tel. 606160 Fax. 673663 Website: www.theargus.co.uk [email protected] Switchboard: Tel. 544544 www.resourcecentre.org.uk Fax. 566114 Covers Argus and Leader. Editorial: Editor: Michael Beard Tel: 544501 Email: [email protected] News Desk: News Editor: Lee Gibbs Tel: 544516 Argus and Leader Email: [email protected] Argus House (Covers all editorial: news, videos, letters, What’s on, Crowhurst Road features) Hollingbury Text: Send news, views, pictures by texting SUPIC to 80360 BN1 8AR Letters: Email: [email protected] Write to Argus Letters at the address on the left. Submit a letter from their website at: www.theargus.co.uk/news/letters/sendaletter/ What’s On: Email: [email protected] Submit details of your event to the Argus at: www.theargus.co.uk/events Picture desk: Tel. 544526 Email: [email protected] (Send press releases with photo calls to the picture desk as well as the newsroom) Adverts: Tel. 544733 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Features: Tel. 544592 Email: [email protected]
Updated 18 December 2012
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Radio
BBC Sussex Broadcasting House Website: www.bbc.co.uk/sussex Queens Road Contact: Tel: 320428 Brighton Email: [email protected] BN1 3XB (emails sent to this address will be forwarded onto the relevant individual or department) B’ton News: Tel. 320401 / 320402 or 08459 570057 (for phone-ins) Fax. 571754 News Editor: Angus Moorat Email: [email protected] Promoting Send information by email marked ‘Information Events: Exchange’ giving at least 10 days notice, to [email protected] Action Desk: Tel. 01273 725558 ask for Melita Dennett email: [email protected] (Action Desk is available for community groups to appeal for volunteers, items they need, publicising services etc. It involves a short interview on the breakfast show.) Juice FM Juice 107.2 FM The best way to get a mention on the radio is to email or post your 170 North Street press release. Brighton Website: www.juicebrighton.com BN1 1EA Contact: Tel. 386107 Fax: 273107 Studio : 387107 Studio text: 80006, starting your message with “Juice” Email: [email protected] (for news items) or [email protected] (for immediate updates) Facebook and Twitter: www.facebook.com/Juicebrighton http://twitter.com/juicebrighton Radio Reverb (97.2 FM) Website. www.radioreverb.com 11 Old Steine Brighton Tel. 687955 BN1 1EJ Email. [email protected] (general enquiries) or [email protected] twitter: http://twitter.com/radioreverb Page 2 Media Contacts
The One World community show is on air on Friday at 1pm. It includes a round up of community events, activities, groups, projects, services, opportunities for volunteering and other useful information for people in Brighton and Hove. Plus interviews with people involved in community groups, projects and services. If you would like your event, group, project or volunteering opportunity publicised, or would like to be on the show just email or phone them. Radio Free Brighton Aim to have shows for all ages and interests - all produced and presented by volunteers in several languages. Also cover a wide range of topics: • Eco issues, human rights and in-depth news (both local and global) • Science, history, arts and poetry • Stories, live music performances, music and entertainment Website: www.radiofreebrighton.org.uk Contact them via their website contact form. Facebook and twitter: www.facebook.com/radiofreebrighton http://twitter.com/rfbrighton Heart Sussex
Heart Radio Sussex Website: www.heartsussex.co.uk Radio House General: Tel: 430111 (office) / 0845 7102103 (studio) Franklin Rd News: Email: [email protected] Brighton BN41 1AF Text: 82122 Starting your text with the word SUSSEX Events: You can add your events to the events calendrr on their website. Go to the website, click on ‘events’ then on ‘add an event’ Television
BBC TV BBC South East Today The Great Hall Mount Pleasant Road Covers East and West Sussex, Surrey and Kent Tunbridge Wells Website: www.bbc.co.uk/southeasttoday TN1 1QQ Newsroom: Tel. 01892 675580 for breaking news For future events contact: 01892 675575 Email: [email protected]
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Meridian Broadcasting Meridian Broadcasing Website: www.itv.com/meridian-east Olivier House 18 Marine Parade News: Tel. 0844 881 4353 Brighton Email: [email protected] BN2 1TL BBC South Today Covers the area from East Sussex, across to Devon and up to BBC TV Oxfordshire. Broadcasting House Havelock Road Website: www.bbc.co.uk/england/southtoday Southampton, Tel: 023 8022 6201 SO14 7PU Email: [email protected] or you can email direct from the website Text: 07786 200606 Videos and photos: 07834 845220 Political correspondent: [email protected] Newsroom: Tel. 02380 374540 or the switchboard If you are phoning out of hours you will be given a pager number to ring. Email: [email protected] Community Channel Broadcast on Freeview, Virgin media and Sky. Community Channel 2nd Floor Riverwalk House, The Community Channel states that it “makes you think again about 157-161 Millbank, the world around you, and inspires you to take action on the causes London, SW1P 4RR and issues that matter to you.” They broadcast original shows and work from new directors and community programme makers. Tel: 08708 505500 Email: [email protected] Website: www.communitychannel.org Listings and news magazines
Latest 7
Latest 7 General: Tel. 818150 Unit 1, Level 5 North Email: News: [email protected] New England House Events: [email protected] New England Street Website: www.latest7.co.uk Brighton (Email or phone-in details of events for events at least a week before BN1 4GH you want it publicised – it goes out weekly)
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What’s On Williams Media Ltd Monthly ‘Whats On’ wall chart and pocket guide 1st and 2nd Floor, Unit 11 English Business Park General: Tel. 731000 English Close Email: [email protected] Hove Website: www.whatsonguide.co.uk BN3 7ET Deadline: 15th of each month for inclusion the following month. Insight City News
Insight City News Website: www.insightcity.co.uk BN1 Publishing Ltd General: Tel: 765200 Sussex House Fax: 206681 75 Church Road Email: [email protected] Hove Send info by 15th (at the lastest) of each month for inclusion in the BN3 2BB following month’s edition. For news items contact them 2 months in advance. GScene (lesbian & gay monthly news and listings magazine) Gscene 111 Western Road Website: www.gscene.com Hove General: Tel: 722457 BN3 1AE Email: [email protected] Send info by 12th of each month for inclusion in thefollowing month’s edition. 3Sixty (lesbian & gay monthly features and listings magazine)
3sixty Magazine Website: www.3sixtymag.co.uk 4 Steine Steet General: Tel: 08455 192 360 Brighton Fax: 676 201 BN2 1TE Email the magazine by a form on the website Send listings in by 14th of each month, for inclusion in the following month’s magazine. One80news (lesbian & gay fortnightly news magazine) One80news Website: www.one80news.com 4 Steine Steet General: Tel: 570570 Brighton Fax: 676 201 BN2 1TE Email: [email protected]
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The Source Website: http://brightonsource.co.uk Brighton SOURCE PO Box 3313 General: Tel: 609955 Brighton Email: [email protected] BN1 4BJ Listings: [email protected]
If you’d like your listings to appear in the magazine please email them to the address below by the 15th of the month before the event, even if it’s a regular night. Send only the following details: date, venue, name of night, DJs/bands (etc) performing, opening time, prices, one sentence of description. Put the word listings in the header, along with the venue name.Events must be entertainment based in Brighton & Hove for inclusion. Listings arriving after that will go into the listings section of the website. The service is free. Big Issue Brighton is covered by the South East edition produced in London. The Big Issue There is no longer a local office in Brighton. 1-5 Wandsworth Road Vauxhall, London Tel: 020 7526 3200 SW8 2LN Editorial: Email: [email protected] Website: www.bigissue.com Alternative press
Schnews Published weekly by direct action group Justice? c/o Community Base, Website: www.schnews.org.uk 113 Queens Rd, Brighton Tel: 685913 BN1 3XG Press and emergency contact: 07947 507866 Email: [email protected] Indymedia You can post your own news and events on this site, or add comments to existing postings. UK: www.indymedia.org.uk South Coast: www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/
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Community Newswire A free national news distribution service for charities, communities and campaigns, run in partnership with the Press Association (PA). The free-to-use Community Newswire service helps charities, communities and citizen journalists get their stories into the national and regional media. Stories, press releases and photos are submitted online to Community Newswire, and the best are selected and written up by dedicated Press Association journalists and distributed to thousands of newsrooms across the UK. www.mediatrust.org/communitynewswire Other local websites
www.brightonandhovenews.org Website dedicated to Brighton and Hove news established in November 2009 www.gaybrighton.com Lists local events and meetings for the lesbian and gay community. www.brightonactivist.net Lists local events, campaigns, demonstrations, meetings. www.cvsectorforum.org.uk/events
01273 810248 CVSF has an events and meetings calendar for community and Brighton Junction, 1A Isetta voluntary groups in Brighton and Hove. It is accessed through CVSF’s Square website. If you would like to advertise your event for free, please 35 New England Street, email [email protected] including the following information: Brighton Name of the event / Date / Time / Venue / Description (optional) BN1 4GQ Web-link to more info (optional) / Who to contact for more info Local community newsletters
If your event or news is relevant to residents of a particular area (e.g. Moulsecoomb), or a particular interest group (e.g. cycling/cyclists), it’s worth finding out whether there is a local community newsletter produced in the area, and contacting the people who publish it. If you don’t live in the local area, you could check community centres, hairdressers, coffee shops or other local businesses to check if such a publication exists. CVSF lists some of the local community newsletters and has a search facility: www.cvsectorforum.org.uk/informing/community-newsletters Some newsletters are sent out only to their members so may not be available to the general public. Try doing an internet search for the area Page 7 of interest, or location. Media Contacts
Media-related information & training
Brighton & Hove Community Reporters For workshops, courses and training on how to be a community reporter in Brighton and Hove. Website: http://bhcr.scip.org.uk/ Media Trust Online information, fact sheets and resources about PR, communications, marketing, digital media etc. They also provide training. Website: http://resources.mediatrust.org/ Social Media Surgery Go to their website, where you can search upcoming social media surgeries by location. Website: socialmediasurgery.com
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