Apply AP style on a copy-desk pass

Practice the AP Stylebook order from newsroom training. The story is not slotted until names, numbers, abbreviations, and the dateline follow the book.

  1. Read the story once for sense before touching commas.
  2. Fix names, titles, and datelines to the Stylebook.
  3. Apply number, abbreviation, and capitalization rules.
  4. Mark remaining legal or fairness issues for the slot.
  5. File the cleaned version in the CMS.
  6. Do not invent house style that contradicts the book on a wire story.