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Friday, 28 February 2020

The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

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The top scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Tom Savage and Andy Reed who both scored 20, narrowly ahead of  Jake Hurfurt on 19 and Toby...
Friday, 21 February 2020

Have a crack at the newsquiz

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Last week's newsquiz saw a record-breaking score of 24 by Phil and Maura Parsons. The previous highest team score was 23, so hats off t...
Friday, 14 February 2020

The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

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The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with 19, narrowly ahead of  Janet Boyle 18.5 and Liz Gerard on 18. The top teams wer...
Friday, 7 February 2020

Time to tackle the newsquiz

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How America's biggest newspapers reported on Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Thanks to Charles Apple. The top scorer in las...
Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Using social media as a source of stories

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My latest article in InPublishing magazine offers tips on how to use social media as a tool for sourcing stories ... and warns of th...
Friday, 31 January 2020

Mark Brexit day by doing the newsquiz

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The top scorer in last week's newsquiz was Jo Wadsworth with an impressive 22.  The best of the rest were  Liz Gerard  and Ed Mortim...
Friday, 24 January 2020

Test yourself with the newsquiz

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Well done to Alan Geere who bossed last week’s newsquiz with 21. Hot on his heels were Janet Boyle , Andy Reed , Dora Allday and Yvonne R...
Friday, 17 January 2020

Time to tackle the newsquiz

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The top score in last week's newsquiz was  Joe Curtis with an impressive 22.  Toby Brown and  Dora Allday both scored 21,  Yvonne Ri...
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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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