THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STYLEBOOK AND LIBEL MANUAL

by Howard Angione

The industry's best-selling reference for 27 years, essential for journalists, students, editors and writers in all professions. With the AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn to write with the clarity and professionalism for which the Associated Press is famous.

Genres: Reference

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Hank Stuever · Rating 5 out of 5]

The one and only, spiral-bound. I had a high school copy and then a new copy in college and then acquired one in my first real newsroom job and that's the copy I still have. It's been updated several times since, but I still reach for the one I've had for some 25 years...

[Evan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, there it is, the old edition from my college days. I've owned several editions of this through the years; it is required in my field of work, and -- depending where you are -- so is the Chicago Manual of Style, which is often contradictory. It has been my experience through the years that the organization in which you're working will pick whatever elements they like out of these guides and make up new ones of their own, so you really never have a consistent style. In other words, it's all kind of a sham. I think this edition tried to push new versions of words onto the press and public such as "cigaret" as a shortened version of "cigarette," mainly, I was told, because it saved column inches and ink on the AP teletypes. I'm not kidding! What bullshit; newspapers and the AP trying to change the English language to save fucking money. Luckily, that crap never caught on.