The Brighton Base set to become CounterPress's first Premier League football outlet
The first outlet covering Premier League football on CounterPress will arrive this summer.
The Brighton Base, run by national newspaper sportswriter Charlie Parker-Turner and supported by a talented team, will move onto the network in June.
Founded in 2025, The Brighton Base already has a prominent place in the Seagulls' media landscape, with over 40,000 monthly visitors enjoying a variety of content, including exclusive breaking news, intelligent analysis, and colourful features.
On the CounterPress platform, the site is set to enhance its offering, providing an unrivalled local service for Brighton fans.
Parker-Turner said: "The Brighton Base has grown far beyond my early expectations since its launch, and the support from Seagulls fans throughout has been nothing short of incredible.
"Joining the CounterPress network signals the next chapter in our journey to becoming the home of Brighton & Hove Albion news and insight. The platform will allow us to build something bigger, better and more sustainable, without losing the essence of what has made the brand what it is today.
"This is the start of a really exciting time for The Brighton Base and we have ambitious plans about what this can become. Our aim of providing the coverage supporters truly want is not changing, but the product is, and certainly for the better."
The Brighton Base will continue to run in its current guise until the relaunch in June, but interested fans can register their interest to be part of the new site from today.
All those who sign up to the mailing list ahead of launch will be entitled to exclusive perks down the line.
Visit thebrightonbase.news now to register your interest.
The Brighton Base is the sixth football outlet to be announced on CounterPress, following in the footsteps of The Moonraker (Swindon Town), From Bromley With Love (Bromley), For Fox Sake (Leicester City), The New Pilgrim (Plymouth Argyle) and The Quartermen (Wycombe Wanderers).
A host of other sites are set to be revealed during the spring and early summer, as part of CounterPress's stated goal to revitalise regional sports journalism at home and abroad.
CounterPress co-founder Sam Morshead said: "Charlie cares about Brighton & Hove Albion, and that comes through in his ambitions to make The Brighton Base the go-to place for coverage of his club for the foreseeable future.
"With the technical and human support provided by CounterPress, Charlie will have the tools and platform he needs to grow a media brand that serves his community: and that is what our business is all about."
CounterPress was set up in 2023 with a mission to revitalise niche and regional sports journalism, and to empower journalists to create, monetise and sustain their own media titles in an era of fragility and churn across the industry.
Outlet owners on the network benefit from agency-level brand design, a modern and slick digital publishing infrastructure, and important human-touch support across editorial, commercial, marketing and digital development.
If you have a patch which you feel deserves better coverage, if you have the knowledge and the contacts to do the job, but don't know where to start, speak to the team today to see if CounterPress is a fit for you.
Email sam@counterpress.media today.
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