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Monday, 30 July 2018

A few words about grammar ...

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My latest piece in InPublishing  will be familiar to many of my former and current trainees. It's a rant about mistakes, bad gramma...
Friday, 27 July 2018

Time to tackle the newsquiz

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There were some excellent scores in last week’s newsquiz. Toby Brown scored a personal best of 22. It was the same score posted by The Penm...
Friday, 20 July 2018

Test your news knowledge with this week's quiz

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There were some good scores in last week's newsquiz. The best was an impressive 21 by Andy Reed . The Penmans scored a powerful 20 - pa...
Friday, 13 July 2018

25 questions about the week's news

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The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Kieran Corcoran with an impressive 18 points. The top team was the Penmans (including Da...
Friday, 6 July 2018

The heat is on, so be cool and do the newsquiz

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The top scorer in last week's newsquiz was Janet Boyle who romped home with a massive 20 points. Next was Gavin Devine with 15. Adam Ba...
Friday, 29 June 2018

Time to tackle this week's newsquiz

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The top scorer in last week's newsquiz was Gavin Devine with an impressive 17, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle on 16. The top team score...
Friday, 22 June 2018

Time to tackle this week's newsquiz

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Last week's newsquiz was clearly a tough one. For two days the top scorers, including Toby Brown , Steven Silk , the Penmans and  Adam ...
Friday, 15 June 2018

Calling all wannabe Australian journalist

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Daily Mail Australia  based in Sydney continues to grow. The busy newsroom, manned 24/7, is expanding further under the guidance of experien...
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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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