Yahoo

AP Stylebook Updated to Capitalize ‘Black’ and ‘Indigenous’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Associated Press Stylebook updated its guidance on Friday for race-related coverage to capitalize “Black” when used “in a ...
Yahoo

AP Stylebook Discourages Use of ‘Riot,’ Expands Definition of ‘Protest’ to Include ‘Violence’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Associated Press Stylebook was amended this week to discourage the use of the word “riot” to describe violent protests, ...
Poynter

AP Stylebook has new Food Guidelines section

NEW YORK – The AP Stylebook has earned a seat at the kitchen table. Beginning today, The Associated Press is making available the print edition of the 2011 AP Stylebook with a new Food Guidelines ...
Mediaite

AP Drops ‘Illegal Immigrant’ From Stylebook: ‘Illegal Should Describe Only An Action’

As of today, the Associated Press will no longer use the term “illegal immigrant.” The change to the influential AP Stylebook was announced by Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen ...
Poynter

This year’s AP Stylebook updates are nothing to get worked up about. Thank goodness.

It’s AP Stylebook update time and … take a cleansing breath … they’re pretty vanilla. In pre-coronavirus days, you might join me in finding this disappointing. Documenting the evolution of language in ...
Associated Press

AP Stylebook 2014 adds religion chapter with over 200 terms

The Associated Press today released the 2014 Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes about 200 new or revised entries plus a separate chapter with more than 200 religion ...
ESPN

Why the Associated Press Stylebook went with esports, not eSports

It's "esports" folks, not "e-sports" or "eSports," and that's final. In case you missed it, The Associated Press has weighed in on how exactly to spell the term we use to describe League of Legends, ...
Townhall

The AP Stylebook Is Getting Crazy

Back in those ancient days when teletypes gave us the sound effects for news, the Associated Press was esteemed as the gold standard of objective news coverage. Inside a liberal media bubble, that ...
Associated Press

2015 AP Stylebook adds more than 300 new or revised entries

The Associated Press today released the 2015 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes about 300 new or revised entries. Stylebook editors worked with AP ...
Wired

AP Stylebook Is All A-Twitter Over New Tech Terms

While some say old-school journalism is dying in the Information Age, the stalwarts at the Associated Press are keeping up with the times, adding the words "Twitter" and "texting" to the latest ...
cjr.org

Why a stylebook should be a guidebook, not a rulebook

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. One small result of the recent earthquake in Nepal was a change in how many news organizations refer to its capital, from ...