It was a birthday celebration to remember.
Hundreds gathered at The Grand hotel in Brighton yesterday for a ticketed lunch and the opportunity to raise a glass to 135 years of The Argus.
In an age where publications come and go, it is no mean feat to continually produce a daily newspaper through two World Wars, industrial strife and testing times.
And even when it looked like the newsroom itself would be razed to the ground in the 1985 fire, we still got the paper out the same day.
While it is easy to mention falling newspaper sales (endemic across the industry), The Argus continues to grow on the internet.
It is fair to say there are positives and negatives to both. What is printed in a paper is there for eternity whereas others will say it’s tomorrow’s fish and chip paper.
As for the internet, its beauty is that anyone can put something online. Then again, its downside is that anyone can put something online.
Regardless of whether you read the paper or go online for your news, you can always trust The Argus.
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