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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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1. A member of a predominantly black Islamic sect in the United States. However the term is considered DEROGATORY by members of the sect - who call themselves muslims
crises
century
Black muslim
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2. In its sense used in arithmetic and statistics - is an average and is determined by adding the series of numbers and dividing the sum by the number of cases
hanged
mean
lay
accept
3. Twice a year (same as semiannual)
staunch
median
flout
biannual
4. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
pour
troops
infer
demolish or destroyed
5. Preferred with numerals (instead of over)
more than
half staff
under way
flout
6. References to insurance
plurality
italics
insure
criteria
7. Never forwards to explain moving toward a position ahead
semiannual
arrest
forward
alumni
8. Not savings - no hyphen - when linking term with the name of a time zone - use only the word daylight (capitalize only when used with a time zone) - lowercase in all uses
federal
daylight saving time
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City Council
9. Use all-caps ZIP for zoning improvement plan - but always lowercase the word code - run the 5 digits together without a comma and do not put a comma between state name and ZIP
nicknames
impostor
ZIP code
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
10. Malicious - premeditated homicide - some states define certain homicides as this if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery - rape - etc. - do not say a victim was ____ed unless it was proven in court - instead say the victim was killed or
affect
less
murder
its
11. Singular form of problem or turning point
pore
daylight saving time
crisis
last
12. Physical distance
Fourth of July
faze
farther
buss
13. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
principal
half mast
majority
flier
14. To avoid any suggestion that someone is being judged before a trial - do not use a phrase such as arrested for killing. Instead - use arrested on a charge of killing. If a charge hasn't been filed - arrested on suspicion of - or a similar phrase - sh
besides
arrest
alumna
hung
15. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
criterion
last
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
compliment
16. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
marshal
amid
italics
naval
17. Singular form of a standard
criterion
allege
flyer
crisis
18. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
subject
troops
teenage
19. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
Legislature
whose
since
hanged
20. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
immigrate
felony
biannual
flounder
21. Is acceptable on first reference to avoid a cumbersome lead - but provide the full name in the body of the story - HQ is in Baltimore
flounder
who
NAACP
off of
22. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
email
heaven
flare
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23. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
principle
fiance
on
fewer
24. Means to exclude
except
widower
Internet
amid
25. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
plurality
median
nicknames
principle
26. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
speeds
half mast
rack
fiancee
27. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
majority
principal
fiance
sneaked
28. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
drowned
lie
rock 'n' roll
complement
29. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
navel
nicknames
login - logon - logoff
homicide
30. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
because
each
lay
collide - collision
31. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
ravage
since
emigrate
median
32. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
immigrate
compliment
courtesy titles
rock 'n' roll
33. Means to guarantee
flaunt
immigrate
ensure
because
34. A decentralized worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other in later references the Net is acceptable - World Wide Web - like email - is a subset of the Internet. They are not synonymous and should not be used interchangeably.
like
primiere
altar
Internet
35. Not afterwards
widower
afterward
daylight saving time
fiance
36. Verb to stop the flow of something
stanch
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
amid
hang - hangs
37. Applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen - or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.
national
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alumna
fiance
38. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
No.
comprise
aid
39. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
lay
in spite of
like
primiere
40. To change
afterward
alter
immigrate
firefighter - police officer
41. NOW is acceptable on second reference- HQ is in Washington
flounder
demolish or destroyed
who
National Organization for Women
42. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
fiancee
Fourth of July
since
43. A person who serves as an assistant
aide
collide - collision
Orient - Oriental
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44. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
subject
that
staunch
widow
45. Should not be used as an adverb. It does not lose its status as an adjective - however - in a sentence such as "I feel bad." Such a statement is the idiomatic equivalent of I am in bad health.
who
average
bad
demolish or destroyed
46. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
refute
that
misdemeanor
effect
47. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
stationery
Cabinet
accommodate
flay
48. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
accommodate
accept
media
principal
49. Use with great care - Avoid any suggestion that the writer is making an allegation - Specify the source of an allegation (arrest record etc.) - Use alleged bribe or similar phrase when necessary to make it clear that an unproved action is not being
badly
courtesy titles
allege
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
50. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
century
either...or - neither...nor
login - logon - logoff
daylight saving time
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