Peter Sands

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Industry Publishing
Occupation Media consultant, journalist and designer
Location Sussex, London, Howden, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Introduction 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: 0044 7977 186408; petersandssms@gmail.com Twitter@petersands55
Interests Newspapers, journalism, typography, grammar, headlines, story-telling, Newcastle United FC, cricket, skiing, being a father-of-four.