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AP Stylebook Workshops


Learn AP style straight from the source, May 6-27 for mechanics and Oct. 7-28 for content

Join editors from The Associated Press for one or both engaging AP Stylebook Workshops in 2026, and you'll build your knowledge of AP style and your confidence in how to apply it to your work.

In spring 2026, AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics will focus on the fundamentals including punctuation, capitalization and numerals.

Then in the fall, AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content will cover the big-picture questions of how to improve your writing and editing to make your copy clear and compelling.

Participate in live virtual sessions with the editors who make AP style or watch recordings at your convenience. You’ll get all the decks to review, as well. You can ask Stylebook editor Anna Jo Bratton your AP style questions in the online classroom’s discussion forum, in addition to during each webinar’s Q&A.

Each registration includes access to AP Stylebook Online, our searchable and customizable AP style resource, as well as AP Stylebook Study Guides, a series of self-scoring quizzes that reinforce the workshop's lessons.

Register now to begin your access to Stylebook Online, Stylebook Study Guides and the online classroom’s extensive on-demand videos right away.

Each AP Stylebook Workshop will sell for $299, but you can sign up for either workshop at the early-bird rate of $199 through March 23. The early-bird discount is the best price we will offer for the AP Stylebook Workshops. Group rates will go into effect after March 23, but you can get early-bird pricing regardless of the size of your group.

LIMITED-TIME OFFER: Sign up for both AP Stylebook Workshops to learn about both mechanics and content and pay just $350. This special pricing applies only when the same participant joins us for both workshops in 2026.

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— Learn from the Stylebook team in hourlong webinars and on-demand instructional videos.
— Engage in conversations with classmates and practice your skills in the lively online classroom.
— Develop your knowledge using access to AP Stylebook Online and AP Stylebook Study Guides, with access available as soon as you register.
— Keep access to AP Stylebook Workshop content, including the online classroom, AP Stylebook Online and AP Stylebook Study Guides, through Jan. 31, 2027.


— The AP Stylebook Workshop is offered in partnership with Edmaker, experts in online learning communities.
— Edmaker hosts the course on its web-based platform. There's nothing to download or install, but you will need a current browser and reliable internet connectivity.
— All live webinars take place on Zoom. For best results, run a current version of Zoom on your desktop or laptop computer. You can participate on your mobile device, but you will have a richer experience on a computer with a bigger screen so you can see the text on screen and engage in chat. If your security policy prevents installing Zoom, ask your technology team if you can watch the sessions using web-based Zoom as an alternative.
— After you register for the AP Stylebook Workshop on the Stylebook website, you will receive a claim code via email. When you redeem that code via the link included in the email, you will get an email from Edmaker to access the online workshop and a separate email from APStylebook.com with access to Stylebook Online and Stylebook Study Guides.
— If you sign up on behalf of multiple users, you will get an email with a set of claim codes. Share one code with each user who you would like to participate, along with the activation code link. As your users redeem their claim codes, they will get their activation emails from Edmaker and APStylebook.com.
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Bring your colleagues, classmates or friends and you all get a better price. Sign everyone up at once to automatically get group pricing:
— 3 to 4 registrants: 10% off per user
— 5 to 10 registrants: 15% off per user
— 11 to 20 registrants: 20% off per user
— 21+ registrants: 25% off per user


— Your primary instructor is Anna Jo Bratton, editor of the Associated Press Stylebook. Anna Jo has served on the AP Stylebook committee for more than a decade. She played a critical role in devising guidance around business, technology and disabilities, as well as several other topics. Anna Jo became Stylebook editor after serving on the Top Stories Hub, where she edited stories from around the globe. She started at AP in 2007 as a political reporter in Nebraska and held a variety of editing roles in the West Region, based in Phoenix, before serving as U.S. enterprise editor and global enterprise editor in New York. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in journalism in 2003.
Anna Jo will be joined by the members of the Stylebook editing team.
— Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, currently oversees AP's Trends + Culture coverage globally. He is a veteran correspondent and news leader who has been with AP since 1992. He has served in a variety of roles both in the field and at AP headquarters, ranging from national correspondent to China news editor to director of Asia-Pacific news. In 2003, he reopened AP's Baghdad bureau in the days after the U.S. invasion. For 30 years, he has specialized in writing about American and global culture and how it changes and evolves. He has covered stories from the aftermath of 9/11 in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq to presidential elections, the 1997 death of Princess Diana in London and seven Olympic Games. He is the author of the 2007 book "Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song," and is currently at work on his next book, "Unsorted But Significant: Travels Through Dementia, Grief and the Things Parents Leave Behind."
— Jimmy Golen, covers Boston sports for The Associated Press, with a little bit of sports law and Olympic beach volleyball and curling mixed in.
— Aaron Morrison, race and ethnicity news editor for The Associated Press, joined AP in 2020 as a national writer on the R&E team, and has reported extensively on the intersection of race, justice and culture. In Fall 2021, Aaron also became an adjunct lecturer in the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Aaron's work has previously appeared in outlets such as The Appeal, Mic and The Record of Bergen County. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and their newborn daughter.
— Christina Paciolla, a highly respected editor with a track record of developing talent and driving coverage of major stories, has been appointed The Associated Press’ news editor for Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. A lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area, Paciolla will be based there and oversee the AP’s all-formats team of journalists dedicated to covering the compelling politics, rich communities and changing ways of life in the three-state region. Paciolla has covered the Philadelphia market and the broader East region for her entire career. Prior to joining the AP as an editor on the East regional desk in 2015, she worked as Philadelphia city editor for Metro US, overseeing a team of reporters and freelance writers and photographers while also covering major stories herself. Before her stint at Metro, Paciolla worked as a reporter and editor at various local news outlets in the Philadelphia metro area, covering state politics and other issues.
— Pia Sarkar, a veteran reporter, editor and newsroom leader, has been named deputy editor for the east for The Associated Press, charged with helping to oversee news coverage in 10 states. Sarkar, served most recently as executive editor of The American Lawyer website and the Am Law Daily newsletters, where she provided a strategic direction for the site and led a team onsite and remotely in producing competitive content on national law firm business. Sarkar spent seven years as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered some of the most iconic companies in the area, including Gap, Apple and Levi Strauss. At the Daily Journal legal publication, where she spent three years as associate editor, Sarkar oversaw coverage of California’s Proposition 8 gay marriage ban and its eventual undoing on appeal. She also worked as a reporter at TheStreet.com, a financial news site, covering national retail chains and major internet companies; at Pensions & Investments; at The Record of Woodland Park, New Jersey; and for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. Outside the newsroom, Sarkar served as president, vice president and board member of the Asian American Journalists Association in San Francisco.

AP Stylebook Workshops


Program

All live sessions take place on Zoom, 2-3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesdays.

The online classroom includes an interactive Q&A where you can submit your questions in advance for possible inclusion in live sessions. We also offer live Q&A via Zoom.


AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics includes four live webinars May 6-27.

AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content includes four live webinars Oct. 7-28.


You will have access to AP Stylebook Workshop content, including the online classroom, AP Stylebook Online and AP Stylebook Study Guides, until Jan. 31, 2027.

AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics includes four live webinars May 6-27.

Week 1: Get picky about punctuation, capitalization and numbers

Immerse yourself in this quick refresher course on how to punctuate with authority; understand the rules (and many exceptions) in capitalization; navigate numerals; and make the best choice for your writing when the rules are unclear.

This session will help you:

  • Learn about commas, periods or semicolons, and even occasional exclamation points!
  • Pick the right punctuation, and avoid common mistakes, including apostrophes where they aren’t needed or putting punctuation in the wrong place for quotations.
  • Avoid unneeded capitalization
  • Be consistent in how you present abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms; dates and times; and percentages.

Speakers: Jimmy Golen, AP sports writer and Stylebook committee member; and Anna Jo Bratton, Stylebook Editor


Week 2: Clarify your copy

Learn core style rules that can help sharpen your writing, such as using succinct language; cutting excess detail; and avoiding cliches and jargon.

This session will help you:

  • Cut the cliches and ax the acronyms
  • Use quotations only if they are the best way to tell the story and be careful how you paraphrase
  • Learn how and when to adapt your internal style rules to suit your medium.

Speaker: Christina Paciolla, AP deputy director for U.S. text production and Stylebook committee member


Week 3: AP style rules that trip people up, with Grammar Girl

Join New York Times bestselling author Mignon Fogarty, creator of the popular Grammar Girl podcast, for her take on how and why you should engage with the style rules that confound people the most. You'll come away knowing how to make AP style work for you and your audience, and enjoy some stories about some of the changes that caused gasps: "more than" versus "over," "data" as a singular noun, "very unique" and the singular "they."

This session will help you:

  • Learn how to incorporate new rules and understand the evolution of style.
  • Adapt style rules for your industry and region.
  • Describe people with fairness and grace.
  • Format everyone's favorite tool: the bulleted list.
  • Deal with tricky product and company names such as iPhone and E*TRADE.
  • Learn how rules for headlines relate to body copy, social media, email subject lines.

Speaker: Mignon Fogarty, creator of the popular Grammar Girl podcast


Week 4: What’s new in AP style

Our new AP Stylebook, 58th Edition, will come out on May 29 so join us for an overview of what’s changed in AP style, and an insider’s look into how we made the decisions.

Stylebook Editor Anna Jo Bratton and Product Manager Colleen Newvine will give an overview of what’s new in the Stylebook and what the editors have updated, including updated guidance on writing about artificial intelligence, newly combined words to reflect evolving language, and some fun updates that might make you gasp in delight (or not!)

Speakers: Anna Jo Bratton, AP Stylebook Editor; and Colleen Newvine, Stylebook Product Manager



AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content, Oct. 29-Nov. 19

Week 1: Beyond the basics: Use the AP Stylebook to sharpen your story selection, explain difficult topics and edit for your audience

This session will help you:

  • Replace jargon and alphabet soup with language that’s clear for your audience.
  • Use the Stylebook’s special sections, like Health and science and Polls and surveys, to help audiences understand complex ideas.
  • Understand the Stylebook’s advice on business, technology and artificial intelligence to choose which topics to cover or what stories to pitch.
  • Learn thoughtful self-editing tips to improve your draft before (or instead of) sending to an editor.

Speakers: Christina Paciolla, deputy director for U.S. text and stylebook committee member; and Anna Jo Bratton, Stylebook Editor


Week 2: Get perspective about English’s rules from Merriam-Webster’s editor at large

Why does the English language sometimes feel like a complicated mess? Find out from Merriam-Webster editor at large, Peter Sokolowski. He’ll share guidance on what to do when there's no clear right and wrong or when the rules are gray and require judgment. You’ll come away with guidance on how and when to use the dictionary and Stylebook in tandem.

  • Learn about the new Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Twelfth Edition.
  • Explore the ways the dictionary assesses and recommends "usage."
  • Take a close look at hot-button language peeves including literally, very unique and hopefully.

Speaker: Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster


Week 3: Tell accurate, inclusive stories

Make sure you are writing accurate, fair and inclusive content. Inclusivity isn’t just a buzzword: It’s key to ensuring your work is relevant to a wide audience and doesn’t build barriers to communication.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn strategies for how to make your writing more compelling by including an array of voices.
  • Consider the pitfalls of writing that isn’t inclusive.
  • Discuss how to bring these principles into your writing process.

Speaker: Aaron Morrison, AP Race and Ethnicity Editor and Stylebook committee member; and Pia Sarkar, deputy business editor and Stylebook committee member


Week 4: Make better judgment calls

Style in writing calls for constant decision-making. In this session, you’ll learn how and when to make judgments about what to include, what to cut and how to frame your story, based on your audience and story format.

In this session, you will:

  • Hone your judgment on story framing based on audience and format.
  • Learn what to do when the Stylebook doesn’t directly answer your question. Should you use a local term – like “the Valley” in the Phoenix area - to refer to your community? (Maybe, if your audience is mostly in Arizona.)
  • Consider how and when break the rules, and when it makes sense for your audience.
  • Get tips on creating your own internal style guide, so that once you make a decision, all the copy is consistent.

Speaker: Ted Anthony, AP director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation, and Stylebook committee member; and Jimmy Golen, sports writer and Stylebook committee member