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I think the reason that “in spite of” vs. “despite” doesn’t appear in the AP Stylebook is that journalists are supposed to use as few words as possible.

There’s no way this sentence is wrong « Motivated Grammar 2008

American Copy Editors Society conference Friday afternoon, is effective Saturday and will appear in the 2010 Stylebook, which is slated to come out next month.

Extra! Extra! 2010

American Copy Editors Society conference Friday afternoon, is effective Saturday and will appear in the 2010 Stylebook, which is slated to come out next month.

Extra! Extra! 2010

MOOS (voice-over): Norm Goldstein edits the "Stylebook" for the Associated Press.

CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2002 2002

Mr. Hill, a VERBATIM reader and faithful correspondent, was the principal author of a Stylebook which is replete with admonitions like "disregard Web." he explains that "Webster's Third expectably fuzzes over many ... distinctions or even lists some pairs [of words often confused and erroneously interchanged by careless or ignorant or imprecise writers (and speakers in some cases)] as synonyms."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2 1978

I sat here in the BTB offices with my AP Stylebook and notes from Scottso, and did what I could with the info I had.

Seattle Times Boots Five “Partner” Blogs Over Questionable April Fool’s Posts « PubliCola 2010

For a usage that has been standard for decades, hopefully as a sentence adverb attracts some mystifying objections — and from sources that ought to know better, such as the AP Stylebook.

What’s wrong with “hopefully”? « Motivated Grammar 2010

It comes from the UPI Stylebook I used while working for it in 1980.

Booking Through Thursday: Grammar « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010

Click here for the full article on the AP Stylebook's Facebook page.

Is it Gadhafi, or Khadafy, or Qaddafi or Gadhdhafi? 2011

Lee Keath, AP's Middle East regional enterprise editor, tries to sort it out on the AP Stylebook blog.

Is it Gadhafi, or Khadafy, or Qaddafi or Gadhdhafi? 2011