Saturday, 28 January 2012
If typography was a sport ...
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Sands Media Services Ltd
- Peter Sands
- Sands Media Services is a training and design consultancy run by Peter and Pam Sands. Peter is consultant trainer on the Daily Mail graduate programme in London, New York and Sydney. He is a former editor of The Northern Echo, non-executive director of Northcliffe Media, director at PA Training and from 2006-2011 was chairman of the judges in the Regional Press Awards. He has redesigned 90 newspapers and magazines and is in demand as a trainer, speaker and editorial consultant. Peter was presented with the Journalists' Charity Award which 'recognises an individual or body that has made an outstanding contribution to journalism and journalists’ in 2018. Pam is a former director of the Editorial Centre and Press Association Training. Our partners include Press Association Training, ffresh, the visual communications company run by Mike Brough, Alan Geere, Brian Page and other senior journalists and designers. You can contact us on: 0044 7977 186408; petersandssms@gmail.com Twitter@petersands55
Services
SMS services include:
Training courses
Introduction to sub-editing
Newspaper layout and design
Subbing masterclass
Headline writing
The Editor's Chair
News-editing
Redesigning a newspaper
Typography
Use of colour
Managing change
Leadership in the newsroom
Editing a Leisure Guide
Use of graphics
Pictures on a page
Content that sells
Getting it right first time (for reporters)
InDesign
Photoshop
Designs
We have redesigned around 90 newspaper and magazine titles. If you need a new look for your newspaper or magazine or a freshening of your style, do not hesitate to contact us.
Publishing
SMS's team of designers, artists and journalists produce pages and supplements for newspapers and magazines. We can look after everything from the articles, photographs, design and proof-reading - delivering professional camera-ready pages on to your system.
Conferences
Peter Sands has organised, run and chaired conferences for many major media groups including Johnston Press, Archant and Northcliffe.
Consultancy
Peter has assisted media groups and newspaper titles in changing their structure, market position and in drawing up their business strategy. He was editorial director of Northcliffe newspapers from 2011 to 2013, helping the group get in shape ready for its sale. Peter has also assisted in change projects at newspapers including the Irish Independent, the Belfast Telegraph, the Inverness Courier, the Irish News, Allied Newspapers (Malta), the Guernsey Press, North Wales Weekly Newspapers, the Irish Examiner, the Evening Echo (Cork), Archant and many others.
Articles
Peter writes regular columns for InPublishing magazine and is a regular contributor to national newspaper sports pages. His specialist subjects include the media, management, training, football, Newcastle United FC, travel, the Languedoc area of France and human interest articles.
To read Peter's recent articles for InPublishing
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