Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0917360192 ISBN 13: 9780917360190

Publisher: Associated Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Fully revised and updated, the essential handbook for all writers, editors, students, and public relations specialists. More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and writers have bought more copies of than of any other journalism reference. With this essential guide in hand, any writer can learn to communicate with the clarity and professionalism for which the Associated Press is famous. Fully revised and updated, this edition contains over 5,000 A to Z entries--including more than 50 new ones--laying out the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, and word and numeral usage. Comprehensive and easy to use, provides the facts and references necessary to write accurately about the world today: correct names of countries and organizations, Internet language and search techniques, language to avoid, common trademarks, and the unique guidelines for business and sports reporting. The final word on media law, also includes an invaluable section dedicated to crucial advice on how writers can guard against libel and copyright infringement. The veritable "journalist's bible," this is the one reference that working writ

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The Associated Press (www.ap.org) is a not-for-profit news cooperative, providing coverage of news, sports, business, weather, entertainment, politics, and technology in text, audio, video, graphics, and photos to 15,000 news outlets worldwide. Distributed by satellite and the Internet to more than 120 nations, AP services daily reach more than one billion people. With headquarters in New York City, the AP has 241 bureaus worldwide and more than 3,500 employees.

About this edition

• Publisher: Associated Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0917360192
• ISBN 13: 9780917360190
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Goldstein Norm