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6 things you think are AP style rules that aren’t actually AP style rules

AP style explicitly advises against following an organization’s full name with an abbreviation in parentheses unless the ...
Poynter

How breaking news is changing the AP Stylebook in real time

Anna Jo Bratton, AP’s new stylebook editor, says breaking news from gun violence to the Middle East is driving guidance changes In this 2023 photo released by the U.S. Navy, the USS Bataan and USS ...
Orange County Register

Larry Wilson: The AP Stylebook and a Gulf of America

For an American print journalist, it is impossible to overestimate the importance of the Associated Press Stylebook. Hold the phone. Is that instead Style Book? Just checking here … no. Got it right ...
Poynter

AP Stylebook update: Denali is now Mount McKinley but the Gulf of America is still the Gulf of Mexico

A stroke of President Donald Trump’s pen this week raised a roiling question for cartographers and style-minded journalists: What to call a peak and a gulf. A postinaugural flurry of executive order ...
Los Angeles Times

White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP policy on ‘Gulf of America’

The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Trump has ordered renamed ...
The Columbian

White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America’

The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ...