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Thursday, 7 February 2013

Newsquiz is back. Kieran and Lizzie's 12 to beat

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I have been in Northcliffe House all week working with trainee journalists on Mail Online. The trainees have had an intense week with talk...
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Thursday, 24 January 2013

Newspaper bills: the good and not so good

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Here's an interesting location for this Jessops bill from the Leicester Mercury ... right outside the Jessops store. It certainly re...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Local World vacancies as editors move on

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Two of Northcliffe's heavyweight editors are bowing out. Ian Mean (left), veteran editor of the Gloucester Citizen, is taking on a n...

Adverts breaking out of the box

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This advert, with balloons floating into an inappropriate story, rightly caused a flurry of disapproval on Twitter. It is pretty awful. B...
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Monday, 21 January 2013

Good graphic, bad graphic

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Here are two topical graphics at different ends of the scale. This one, from Canada's National Post, on the number of gun deaths in t...
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Sunday, 20 January 2013

The clue is in the masthead

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Here's an innovative idea from Cumberland County's Sentinel in America. The paper has responded to readers' requests to carry...
Saturday, 19 January 2013

Things you might miss by reading a paper

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I have been away from the laptop for a month or so ... and am now playing catch-up. This is one of the more interesting things that I mis...
Monday, 10 December 2012

Mail looking for trainee subs and reporters

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This year's reporting course at the PA offices in London The Daily Mail is now recruiting trainees for its autumn schemes for report...
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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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