On Wednesday, the Associated Press announced another style change that seemed to cause more teeth-grinding and head-shaking. Starting May 1, the news co-op said, we’ll spell out state names within the bodies of stories rather than abbreviate them.
In March, Poynter wrote about the news that the AP removed the distinction between over and more than. Here’s how that one went over.
I gathered some reactions across Facebook, Twitter and our comments section on the state names news.
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