media in the news
Following Jimmy Kimmel's comments about Melania Trump having the "glow of an expectant widow", the FCC did this.
What is: ordered a review of ABC's broadcast licenses?
Samsung is one of the world’s leading makers of smartphones; its most popular models carry the brand name Galaxy.
This sentence applies these entries in the AP Style guide.
What is Samsung? (Samsung Electronics)
What is smartphones?
What is brand names? (Galaxy)
This visualization is best suited for showing discrete data that is not continuous over time.
What is a bar chart?
Unlike one simple command, this AI strategy gets specific.
What is few-shot prompting or chain of thought?
This headline has these problems:
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
1. What is all-caps?
2. What is wrong meaning?
Fixed:
Kids fix (or learn to make) nutritious snacks
The New York Times recently dropped a freelance journalist for this action.
What is: using AI to write a book review?
The Dodgers defeated the Phillies, 10-3.
This sentence has this error, according to AP Style.
You should avoid this chart error because it can exaggerate differences.
What is a truncated y axis?
This is excellent for basic copy editing and for showing edits that can be accepted or rejected.
What is EditGPT?
In print, these parts are above the story:
Nuclear Fears Rise for Site Deep in Iranian Mountain
Trump Is Urged to Move on Facility Thought to Be Beyond the Reach of Bombs
What is a headline and deck?
Hungary's Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar will likely do this to the country's media.
What is: turn it from a propaganda machine into a public-service media?
NASA and the FBI share this AP Style rule.
What is: acceptable in all references?
Enrollment drops from 2,000 students to 1,500 students.
This is how we express it in a story.
What is: Enrollment dropped 25% to 1,500 students.
This tool might make the best-looking visualization.
What is Claude? or What is Datawrapper?
This is the successor to SEO.
What is GEO, or generative engine optimization?
A federal judge recently blocked a $6.2 billion merger of these local television giants until an antitrust lawsuit is resolved.
What is Nexstar and Tegna?
Since my layoff, I have more time to work out.
The verbs "layoff" and "work out" share what AP Style rule?
What is: one word in noun form and two words in verb form?
The study showed the disease severity lessened by 75%
This is what needs to be mentioned for context.
This prompting technique can help bring multiple expert perspectives to a story.
What is "panel of experts"?
ICE budget reaches 'outrageous' $5B
This headline uses these AP Style rules.
After a ruling that found major parts of the Defense Department’s restrictions on the press unconstitutional, a court of appeals is still allowing the Pentagon to do this with reporters.
What is: require all journalists visiting the building to be accompanied by an official escort.
The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded passes.
This is how it's referred to on second reference.
A poll shows 52% in support of a candidate.
This is what you need for context.
What is the margin of error?
This prompting language can help format documents and retain the formatting.
What is markdown?
Hospitals Are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
This headline needs these fixes to adhere to AP Style and make sense.
What is down style?
What is 7 podiatrists? (or)
What is 7-foot-tall doctors?