Still Stylish: New Media Style, Punctuation and Grammar |
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| Event | Interactive 2011 |
| Format | Panel |
| Organizer | Sally Jacobsen – Associated Press |
| Description | If texts and IMs have made abbreviations and lack of punctuation commonplace and blogging features casual writing, often by people without formal journalism education, is there a role for formal rules of word usage, punctuation, grammar and the like in new media? The editors of the Associated Press Stylebook think the answer is a resounding yes. Just as AP style has helped give readers of newspapers a consistent and clear experience since the 1950s, we believe consistent style encourages clarity and communicates professionalism online. We propose a panel of expert grammarians and writers to discuss the question of whether style still matters – even on blogs, even in tweets. The panel will take questions from the audience, and will accept suggestions for new terms to add to their rules and guidance. Even as blogs, texts and e-mails have turned some people into more casual writers, the AP Stylebook has grown. Customers bought about twice as many books in the first year of the 2010 Stylebook as in the 2009 book’s launch. AP Stylebook is such a newsroom staple that it spawned the parody Twitter account, FakeAPStylebook, which landed its own book deal. |
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| Level | Intermediate |
| Category | Journalism |
| Tags | journalism, news, writing |