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Monday, 30 April 2012

Who's that girl?

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Good splash in the Scunthorpe Telegraph on Thursday ... but it was the plainly designed advert that caught the eye. Who is Amanda? Is...
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Why subs need a dirty mind .. and good taste

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I regularly warn subs that they must have a dirty mind and good taste ... so that they keep the double entendre and innuendo out of the pa...
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Sunday, 29 April 2012

Be careful of dodgy relationships

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There have been a few embarrassing juxtapositions doing the rounds this week, including the three above. The 'Man plunges to h...
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Saturday, 28 April 2012

Spot the editor

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This old Northcliffe football team picture, supplied by the Oxford Mail's Simon O'Neill,  features no fewer than eight current or ...
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Days of hot metal and Biffo the stonehand

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The news that the Shields Gazette is moving from its Chapter Row offices in South Shields has taken me on a brief journey down memory la...
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Friday, 27 April 2012

Richard Wooldridge remembered

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Family, friends and newspaper colleagues gathered at St. Chad’s Church in York yesterday for a memorial service for Richard Woold...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

How I got my hands on Shay Given's gloves

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Andy Cooper left the editorship of the North Devon Journal on Friday after 15 years with Northcliffe's Cornwall and Devon Media. I fi...
Saturday, 31 March 2012

Let's hear it for Simon Ricketts ...

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In February Simon Ricketts, a Hastings graduates of 1993 and now a senior Guardian journalist, dropped a bombshell on Twitter. He was off...
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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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