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