Other services:

• House magazines and newsletters
• Supplements
• Books and brochures
• One-off publications

The Editorial Centre produces regular publications for a number of clients, including Northcliffe newspapers. You simply send us the words and images and we look after everything from editing to distribution.

Research

Our professional team can carry out everything from reader/advertiser research to testing redesigns and new products.

Services and pages for the web

Our specialists can unlock the mysteries of the Internet and the Web. Whether it is a course on how to put your pages on the internet or the full development of your site, we can deliver.

The Editorial Centre can produce a standard report (all assessment carried out online) or a customised report which will involve meetings with your web staff. We can also undertake redesign and site development work.

Conferences and speakers

Take the pressure off by asking the Editorial Centre's professional team to organise your conference. The centre can arrange everything from hotels, agenda, speakers, course notes, audiovisual equipment, sponsership... and even provide the chairman.
The centre runs successful annual editor's conferences for newspaper groups, including Archant, as well as providing speakers for the Newspaper Society, Northcliffe, Newsquest, Johnston Press and many others.

The complete style book

Producing your own style book offers a daunting prospect. Our service, prepared by experienced daily newspaper editor Geoff Elliott, provides newspapers with ready-made content in a form they can tailor to their own specific needs. It runs to about 100 A5 pages and to 1,250 guided choices in its A-Z list of word usage. There is a chapter on policy and good practice and another on correct grammar, all informed by 20 years of editing regional newspapers. The book is supplied as a Word document on CD so newspapers can customise it to suit their own needs.

Major projects

The Editorial Centre's specialists can help set up and run new initiatives in the industry. The centre has helped the newspaper industry to respond to the shortage of sub-editors by setting up diploma schemes for the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph. We helped set up and run the Mirror's Academy of Excellence, worked closely with Northeast Press on its Project Generation, led the changes in the restructuring of the editorial department at The Irish News and assisted the Irish Examiner in its transformation from regional to national newspaper. The centre has also established the first journalism diploma in Ireland - the Thomas Crosbie Holdings Diploma. Whether it is a new publication, a new product or a fresh look at the way you work... we can help.

Full NVQ training and assessment

Whatever your needs our assessors and verifiers can help.

Weather training

The Press Association provides a specialist weather service which includes basic and advanced training courses on winter road forecasting. These are aimed at road engineers needing to learn more about meteorology and how the weather impacts on the road network. Course members learn how to interpret the specialist forecasts issued specifically for local authorities and highways agencies in order to determine when and where to salt the road network. We also run a course on meteorology for the weather trader. Energy trading based on seasonal fluctuations in the weather is big business in city markets across the world. Many energy traders have limited understanding of meteorology and this course is designed to teach them how to get the most out of the forecast data available each day. The day-long courses are run by leading meteorologists at PA centres or on-site. For more information contact Andy Giles on +44 (0)20 7963 7558 or at andy.giles@pa.press.net.