Guest: NAIWE’s AP Stylebook Expert Mark Allen

The Associated Press Stylebook, the essential guide to style and usage for news, PR, marketing, and corporate communication, is now updated for 2019 with its most substantive changes in years.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

• Percent vs. %

• Hyphen deletions

• Race-related coverage

• Data vs. datum

Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes

Mark Allen is an editor, writer, and teacher focused on helping people communicate with clarity and honesty. He has trained hundreds of editors and writers on a variety of topics, including the latest and most important elements in the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style. Mark has led conversations about copyediting and writing at conferences and workshops in Detroit, St. Louis, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland, Columbus, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York City, and York, England. He was the first freelancer elected to the executive board of ACES: The Society for Editing, and Mark taught advanced copyediting for UC San Diego Extension’s copyediting certificate program.