While some say old-school journalism is dying in the Information Age, the stalwarts at the Associated Press are keeping up with the times, adding the words "Twitter" and "texting" to the latest edition of The Associated Press Stylebook.
These oh-so-current additions join business terms like "credit default swaps," "derivatives" and "collateralized debt obligations" that we are all sick to death of reading about these days. (It's not clear why AP added "recession-proof" and "solvency" to the manual.)
The AP Stylebook is the media's bible for print rules like state abbreviations, numbers and anything else that could appear in multiple forms in an article, whether online or on paper. When in doubt whether to type "ten" or "10," reporters go to the book.
And, while acknowledging Twitter in the guide, the Stylebook has leaped into the Twenty-first 21st century with its own Twitter account.
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