{"id":520,"date":"2006-03-07T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:20:15","slug":"publicity-tip-survey-shows-pr-people-think-following-associated-press-style-in-press-releases-is-still-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/publicity-tip-survey-shows-pr-people-think-following-associated-press-style-in-press-releases-is-still-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicity tip&#8211;Survey shows PR people think following Associated Press style in press releases is still important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by a group of business communicators shows that if\u00a0you aren&#8217;t referring to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apstylebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press stylebook<\/a> when writing press\u00a0releases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letters to the editor<\/a> or anything else for the media, it shows you really don&#8217;t know how to play the publicity\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>The AP stylebook is\u00a0the journalist&#8217;s\u00a0bible.\u00a0It\u00a0includes all the rules dictating things such as the proper names of government\u00a0agencies all over the world, whether certain words should be capitalized or abbreviated, and the formal names for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The latest online poll by the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220526060021\/http:\/\/dallas.iabc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas chapter<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iabc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Association of Business Communicators<\/a>\u00a0shows that\u00a0business executives and corporate communicators overwhelming agree that AP\u00a0style remains very\u00a0important.<\/p>\n<p>Survey results show:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Almost 43 percent of responding communicators said AP Style is extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 88 percent of responding communicators said AP Style is important, very important or extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 12.2 percent of responding communicators said AP Style is not important or somewhat important<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Only 4.7 percent of responding communicators said AP Style is not important. (Off to the doghouse you Media Mutts&#8212;without your dinner!) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spiral-bound stylebook, at $13.75 a copy, is one of the best investments you&#8217;ll make if you&#8217;re working with the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by a group of business communicators shows that if\u00a0you aren&#8217;t referring to an\u00a0Associated Press stylebook when writing press\u00a0releases, letters to the editor or anything else for the media, it shows you really don&#8217;t know how to play the publicity\u00a0game. The AP stylebook is\u00a0the journalist&#8217;s\u00a0bible.\u00a0It\u00a0includes all the rules dictating things such as the\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/publicity-tip-survey-shows-pr-people-think-following-associated-press-style-in-press-releases-is-still-important\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"tag-press-releases","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43355,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/43355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}