When I heard the AP Stylebook made the leap to iPhone, I dreamt of replacing my coffee-stained hardcopy of the book. The Associated Press pitches the app as a version of its annually updated stylebook ...

A key goal of any newspaper should be communication. There is a reason writers stray from terms that may be unfamiliar to the common reader and attempt to make the ideas they present straightforward.

A journalism stylebook is supposed to provide universal guidelines for writers when it comes to stylistic things like punctuation, capitalization and so on. This includes choosing certain words over ...