AP adds stylebook entry: It’s HuffPost not HuffPo
By Julie Moos
• July 15, 2011
The latest AP stylebook update includes entries on Abbottabad, the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces; Pyeongchang, the South Korea city hosting Olympic Winter Games in 2018; and there's an entry for Huffington Post.
Huffington Post
The Huffington Post news website is affiliated with AOL. It's HuffPost in shortened form.
Journalists have been referring to the site as HuffPo. Will we adapt to AP style? There are older entries in the stylebook for Yahoo ("Do not use the exclamation point in the formal corporate name") and AOL.
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