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Friday, 24 October 2025

Have a crack at the newsquiz

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The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Janet Boyle , the Rev Leon and Robert Rea all with 20. Tim (still totally unremarkable) ...
Friday, 17 October 2025

Time to tackle the newsquiz

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The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim (still totally unremarkable)  with 22, ahead of the Rev Leon  on 21, George Mann and Ro...
Friday, 10 October 2025

Joe wins the newsquiz champagne

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Trainee reporters Molly Lee, Caitlin Leng, Olivia Kemp, Joe Rossiter (with the champagne)  Isabella Machin, Will Hallowell and Jamie Boys  I...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Trainee Joe wins the newsquiz again

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The Daily Mail trainee reporters had a busy second week in Kensington. They went through the Editor’s Code with Editor Emeritus Peter Wright...
Friday, 26 September 2025

Daisy wins the newsquiz champagne

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The Mail’s trainee subs enjoyed their final week of training before heading off to placements at the Daily Mail in Glasgow, the i paper and ...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Daisy's newsquiz hat-trick

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The Mail trainee sub-editors have finished the third week of their training. They had sessions with senior sub Tina Moran , night-editor And...
Friday, 12 September 2025

Daisy wins the newsquiz again

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The Daily Mail trainee subs had a busy second week in Kensington. Their challenges included pitching stories to chief reporter Sam Greenhill...
Friday, 5 September 2025

Trainee Daisy wins the newsquiz

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I have just finished a busy and enjoyable first week with four Daily Mail trainee sub-editors. They studied Mail style, edited stories and w...
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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: petersandssms@gmail.com Twitter@petersands55
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