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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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

White House says it has the right to punish AP reporters over Gulf naming dispute

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TribLIVE.com

White House bars Associated Press 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 ...
Mediaite

White House Ramps Up Attack On AP To Hit ‘Partisan’ StyleBook For ‘Weaponizing Language’: ‘This Isn’t Just About The Gulf of America’

President Donald Trump’s White House ramped up its attacks on the Associated Press (AP) by claiming that the news wire’s influential StyleBook — used widely across mainstream newsrooms — is a means by ...
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 ...
WHYY

Trump says AP will continue to be curtailed at White House until it changes style to Gulf of America

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the news outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of ...
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 ...
NJ.com

Associated Press humiliates Trump in court with stinging example of his hypocrisy

President Donald Trump and his administration are at war with the wire news service The Associated Press. It began when the AP refused to change its style guide by renaming the Gulf of Mexico the ...
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 ...
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 ...