Editing Lewes (section)

==Media==
The ''Sussex Express'' newspaper (formally the ''Sussex Express and County Herald'') was established in 1837 in Lewes as the ''Sussex Agricultural Express'' and merged with the Sussex County Herald in 1938.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sussex Express |url=http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-se/sussex-express/ |website=British Newspapers Online |date=18 January 2014 |access-date=15 April 2015 |archive-date=18 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518090020/http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-se/sussex-express/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Now headquartered in Horsham, it serves Lewes and much of East Sussex. It has four editions and includes extensive coverage of the local sports scene. It is part of the [[Johnston Press]] network of newspapers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk |title=Sussex Express |work=sussexexpress.co.uk |access-date=27 November 2013 |archive-date=27 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127211625/http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

''Viva Lewes'' was founded as a weekly web magazine in January 2006 and also as a monthly print handbook in October 2006 covering events and activities in and around the Lewes area. It ceased publication in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vivabrighton.com/ |title=Viva Magazines |work=vivalewes.com |access-date=3 September 2020 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924082800/https://www.vivabrighton.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In December 2018 a monthly lifestyle publication Town & County Magazine was launched, with coverage of local life, history, and culture, and celebrity interviews, across Lewes district as well as Alfriston & Ditchling.

Local television news programmes are [[BBC South East Today]] and [[ITV News Meridian]] (East).

The town's local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Sussex]], [[Heart South]], [[Seahaven FM]] and [[More Radio Mid-Sussex]].

Lewes has its own [[Restricted Service Licence|RSL]] radio station, Rocket FM,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocketfm.org.uk/ |title=Rocket FM |work=rocketfm.org.uk |access-date=28 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003112513/http://www.rocketfm.org.uk/ |archive-date=3 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> which broadcasts via FM and the Internet for three weeks in October/November each year, covering the Bonfire period.

Operating since 2012 Radio Lewes is a web based podcasting CIC.  Membership based it was created by the Oyster Project Charity (holders of Queen's Award for Voluntary Service)  [https://www.radiolewes.org.uk Radio Lewes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011143820/http://radiolewes.org.uk/ |date=11 October 2018 }}

In November 2012, [[EE (telecommunications)|EE]] launched a series of advertisements promoting its 4G mobile service. All of the adverts, which featured actor [[Kevin Bacon]], were filmed in Lewes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9854808.hollywoods-kevin-bacon-in-lewes/ |title=Hollywood's Kevin Bacon in Lewes |work=theargus.co.uk |date=3 August 2012 |access-date=30 August 2019 |archive-date=30 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830142108/https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9854808.hollywoods-kevin-bacon-in-lewes/ |url-status=live}}</ref>