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
Purdue University
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
United States
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 20, 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
Christel van der Boom
Pleased, Excited, Proud, and Thrilled: Press Release (Over)Use of Happy Words - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting
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Colleague and friend Shonali Burke recently observed, “You know, it would be so refreshing if, just once, a PR …
Aug 26, 2019
Christel van der Boom
AP Style Numbers - Writing Explained
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In general you should spell out numbers one through nine in AP Style. Consider the following examples of AP Style numbers, The Chicago White Sox …
Aug 23, 2014
Christel van der Boom
8 Tricky AP Style Rules Business Reporters Ought To Know
businessjournalism.org - Debbi G McCullough
8 Tricky AP Style Rules Business Reporters Ought To Know by Debbi G McCullough April 5, 2016 Beyond the lead or nut graph, my freshman news writing …
Apr 5, 2016
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MC210_AP Stylebook on Media Names
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Most newspaper names don’t include "the." References to these papers should lower-case the article. Other newspapers do consider "the" a part of …
Jan 25, 2020
Christel van der Boom
WriteCulture | This just in: Updates in 2019 AP Stylebook — STEM, data, hyphens, video games, cryptocurrency, infinitives...
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Jun 1, 2019
Christel van der Boom
62 ways to improve your press releases
articulatemarketing.com - Matthew Stibbe
Improve your press releases! Here are 62 ways to make them better, and to get more coverage. Articulate Marketing Inbound marketing and websites for …
Aug 7, 2007