Saturday, April 17, 2010

AP Style changes ... or does it?


AP POSTPONES STYLE CHANGE ON STATE NAMES
The Associated Press has postponed plans to change its style on state abbreviations, pending further review. In a wire advisory, the AP said it will continue to use state abbreviations in datelines and stories and Canadian provinces in datelines.
The AP had proposed, as of May 15, spelling out the names of U.S. states in all stories and datelines where a city is followed by a state name and dropping the practice of including names of Canadian provinces in datelines.
The intention was to create a consistent and universal style for international as well as domestic use. "We appreciate feedback we have received from members and will continue to review the proposed style changes,” the advisory said.

AP ADOPTS NEW STYLE ON WEBSITE
The Associated Press announced it is changing its style on Web site to website to reflect increasingly common usage, effective now.
A new entry on website has been added to the AP Stylebook Online and will be included in the updated text version, the 2010 AP Stylebook, which will be published next month.
The entry says:
website: A location on the World Wide Web that maintains one or more pages at a specific address. Also, webcam, webcast and webmaster. But as a short form and in terms with separate words, the Web, Web page and Web feed.

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