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AP Style
100

This type of reporting involves attending games and reporting scores.

What is sports reporting?

100

This future famous journalist graduated high school in 2026 and notably acted as the editor in chief before attending the University of Maryland.

Who is Boris Nusinzon?

100

This is the title at the top of an article.

What is the headline?

100

These are the first questions you ask every interviewee, every time.

What are, "what is your name and how do you spell it?"

100

The "P" in AP stands for this.

What is Press?

200

These stories often feature reviews.

What are entertainment stories?

200

This prominent CNN anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent can be recognized for his on-the-ground disaster coverage and empathetic interview style, while not on tour with Andy Cohen performing their joint show: AC2

Who is Anderson Cooper?

200

This should never go in a lede.

What is the date?

200

Depending on the topic, it is generally safe to include at a minimum this many questions per interview.

What is 5?

200

On first introduction, one should include the full name and title (if applicable) of a person. Subsequent mentions should only identify the person by this.

What is their last name?

300

This type of soft news focuses on people and are often human interest stories.

What are feature stories?

300

This sports analyst is perhaps most well known for hosting ESPN's First Take, but also serves as a panelist for the network's NBA coverage as well.

Who is Stephen A. Smith?

300

This graphic area on the outside of a design template ensures that the color of a designed page reaches the edge of that page.

What are the bleeds?

300

While not usually written out beforehand, it is important to include these questions after an interviewee answers to get more depth or information on the topic.

What are follow-up questions?

300

When writing out numbers, generally, any numbers under this can be spelled out.

What is ten?

400

This style of journalism requires extensive research to delve into a topic where deadlines are not strictly enforced.

What is investigative reporting?

400

This duo helped break the Watergate scandal while reporting for the Washington Post. You may remember them from the screening of All the President's Men during Journalism I.

Who are Woodward and Bernstein?

400

The author's name and title, which goes above the article, goes by this name.

What is a by-line?

400

These types of sources may be included when you do not reveal who the interviewee is, only when absolutely necessary due to fear of repercussions and no other way to obtain the information is available.

What are anonymous/unnamed sources?

400

The four guiding principles of AP style are consistency, clarity, accuracy, and this, meaning to keep things concise.

What is brevity?
500

These opinion stories can be unsigned to maintain anonymity of the writers and/or completed by collective writing of the entire staff.

What are editorials?

500

This legendary CBS News anchor was widely dubbed "the most trusted man in America" during the 1960s and 1970s.

Who is Walter Cronkite?

500

This example is written in this style, which we want to avoid in journalistic writing:

"The road was crossed by the chicken."

What is passive voice?

500

A portion of an interview that may provide additional insight or information, but is not intended by the interviewee to go into the article is this.

What is off the record?

500

The Patriot Press uses the below punctuation as a separator when providing attribution to a caption of a photo.

"|"

What is a pipe?