AP Style Cheat Sheet

Grammar advice, style rules and writing tips for PR professionals from the Associated Press Stylebook, the gold standard for news writing.

By Christel van der Boom

Christel van der Boom
AP Style // Purdue Writing Lab
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Associated Press Style These resources provide an overview of journalistic writing with explanations of the most important and most often used …
Aug 13, 2018
Christel van der Boom
AP Definitive Source | Previewing a new AP Stylebook
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The guidance is immediately available to AP Stylebook Online subscribers and will be included in the new print edition of the Stylebook, set to be …
May 1, 2020
Christel van der Boom
U.S. News
AP changes writing style to capitalize ''b'' in Black
Associated Press
The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue....
Jun 19, 2020
Christel van der Boom
AP Style State Abbreviations - Writing Explained
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There are quite a few rules in the AP Stylebook for state names and AP Style state abbreviations. In this post, we will summarize all of the AP …
Aug 23, 2014