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Friday, 28 August 2015

Test yourself with this week's newsquiz

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Last week's newsquiz was clearly a toughie with not many double-figure scores submitted. In fact veteran quizzer  Ian McCulloch sent a ...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

Death on the front page: Right or wrong?

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The Guardian goes with a file picture The Times uses the moment of death Our newspapers are divided this morning over whether putt...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Layout: Don't clutter the Page 1 picture

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There were some incredible images of the Hawker Hunter which crashed into the A27 at Shoreham at the weekend. There is an ethical considerat...

Poll: Do newspapers understand pie charts?

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Weekly poll: Does the Westmorland Gazette understand how pie charts work? Yes or No?  Hat tip Lydia Willgress .

Clever splash by the Indie

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Lovely (and clearly deliberate) juxtaposition of splash headline and picture on the front of today's Independent . Hat tip to Chris L...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

Valerie wins final US newsquiz

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I said farewell to the  DailyMail.com  trainees in New York yesterday. They had a good final week with sessions by head of video Lisa Snell...
Friday, 21 August 2015

Test yourself with this week's newsquiz

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Last week's top score in the newsquiz was Alex Richman with an impressive 17, closely followed by Janet Boyle on 16. Here's this ...
Saturday, 15 August 2015

Jessica wins the US newsquiz

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I have enjoyed another good week with the DailyMail.com trainees in New York. They have been writing stories for the website and had sessi...
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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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