AP Style
Newspaper Norms
(Ethics, Copy Edits, Phoenix)

Know your Editors!
Issue 1
100

Do not use this towards the end of the end of a list

What is an OXFORD COMMA?

100

Day of week of Production Night

What is WEDNESDAY?

100

Section of the issue

What is A&E?

100

Athlete Spotlight sport

What is WATER POLO?

200

These are their own paragraphs

What are QUOTES?

200

Our website web address

200

The sport that the younger opinion editor plays

What is SOCCER?

(Bella plays this)

200

Magician interviewed in News

Who is SATVIK MAGIC? 

300

Full form of "AP" in AP Style

What is ASSOCIATED PRESS?

300

News articles in particular are devoid of this

What is BIAS/OPINION?

300

Their birthday was in September and we sang them Happy Birthday

Who is NETA?

300

Their name was spelled inconsistently/incorrectly across the newspaper

Who is PAOLO MALDONADO?

400

These months are not abbreviated in regular date formatting

What are MARCH, MAY, JUNE & JULY?

400

Number of edits (including people) that a page goes through during Prod. Week

What is EIGHT?

2 staffers, 2 editors, 2 EiCs, Ms. Martin, 1 Copy Editors/Final Check

400

Smera and Zaynab's previous editor position

What is NEWS EDITOR?

400

Person who inspired Walczak to write his book

Who is WES MORSE?

500

This code gives us freedom of press in CA (you would know this if you went to J-Camp)

What is EDUCATION CODE 48907?

500

For collab articles, the first line of the 1st column is aligned with this line of the 2nd column

What is the FIFTH LINE?

500

The reason why an editor broke their arm

What is TRIPPING AND FALLING?

500

The color Centerspread's poll was supposed to be (covered during tearups!)

What is TAN/BEIGE?

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