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Saturday, 29 January 2011

Regional newspapers: 10 things to expect

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Here is my article  for the latest edition of InPublishing magazine - the ten things that ought to happen in the regional newspaper industry...
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Take a tour of The Sun's subs room

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If you are a beleaguered sub-editor, wondering if your days are numbered, then this is a must listen. It's the BBC's Word of Mouth ...
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Monday, 24 January 2011

The Evening Despatch: 25 years since it died

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Here's a walk down memory lane for those who want remember newspapers the way they were. I have recently been in touch with colleagues...
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Friday, 21 January 2011

High flyers about to land in New York

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Delighted for six of our recent trainees who are flying out to New York on January 31 to work on the Mail's online operation. This time ...
Thursday, 20 January 2011

Outlining the case for shorthand

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Photo: Press Gazette Two interesting snippets are doing the rounds this week that show shorthand is still thriving at journalism trainin...
Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Arnold Hadwin, an inspirational editor

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Arnold Hadwin - urbane, old school editor   Photo: Press Gazette I was saddened to learn of the death of Arnold Hadwin, OBE, a former e...

Type comparison 2 - sans headline faces

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One of our Irish clients has been in touch, looking to change their sports page headline font from Franklin Gothic. The key question in any ...
Thursday, 13 January 2011

Couple of old chestnuts ...

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Here are a couple of links that have been pinging about on the web which illustrate some of our old favourite points. The first, forwarded t...
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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: petersandssms@gmail.com Twitter@petersands55
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