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Saturday, 22 February 2014

This week's news quiz: Chris's 18 to beat

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The Mail trainees have had a testing second week in Howden. They were trained in shooting and editing video with Mark Batty , writing featur...
Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Peter Chislett: Non-compromising editor

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I was saddened to read of the death of my old colleague and friend Peter Chislett . I first met Peter when he was editor of the Hartlepo...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Guardian wins 'best in world' design award

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Congratulations to The Guardian which has been named as one of the best designed newspapers in the year in the Society of Newspaper Desig...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

The news quiz is back: Ollie's 15.5 to beat

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I spent this week at PA's Howden headquarters with 13 Mail trainees. It was the first week of their training scheme that will ultimately...
Friday, 7 February 2014

Quality panel for journalism seminar

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Sue Ryan Fay Schlesinger Good to see my colleague Sue Ryan and former Daily Mail trainee Fay Schlesinger  are on a panel d...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Some animal crackers from the regions

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There are a few contenders for regional newspaper headline of the week so far - and all of them involve animals. Here is tomorrow's ...

Must tongue Sally - headline of the week

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Here is another cracking 'headline that sings' for the collection. Quite brilliant work from the Sun subs. More headlines from so...
Tuesday, 28 January 2014

What 2014 holds for regional newsrooms

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If you work for a regional newspaper what can you expect in the coming year? InPublishing magazine asked me to offer a view - and I also...
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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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