Intro to The Associated Press Style | People’s titles and names

Описание: This video introduces The Associated Press Stylebook (0:34) and talks about stating a person’s job title and name the first time the person is mentioned in the story (02:12). Two kinds of job titles, formal titles and occupational descriptions, are then explained (02:26). Also explained are the rules for long job titles that should be placed after the name, lowercased and set off by commas (04:35). The video continues with a short section on not being able to use courtesy titles or titles of respect in AP Style (05:17). The video then focuses on the rules for people’s names (06:44) depending on their age (06:51) and on how many people with the same last name are mentioned in the story (07:19). A Regency-era vent related to Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” example (07:30) is here: 09:11. How to address Colonel Brandon in AP Style is explained at 09:42. (The previous sentence may also be read as “How to address a person who has a military title in AP Style is explained at 09:42”). How to include preferred names is also explained (10:06). The video ends with an example of using people’s titles and names in a photo caption (10:42).

This video heavily relies on photos and video footage created by American space agency NASA.

The footage of the Emirati astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka aboard the International Space Station was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-iss06....

Footage of Al Mansouri before the rocket launch was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-iss06....

Footage of NASA’s Senior Astrophysicist John Mather was obtained as a part of a package about the visit of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12595.

A photo of SpaceX CEO Elon Mask was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-2....

A video recording of President Donald Trump speaking after the SpaceX launch on May 30, 2020, was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Presi....

Photos of the rock star Brian May by NASA’s fantastic photographer Bill Ingalls were obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ20..., here https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ20... and here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ20....

A video of NASA’s mathematician and “Hidden Figure” Katherine Johnson receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2....

A photo of the former President Barack Obama playing golf in 2017 was obtained via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_....

An image of the page from Jane Austen’s novel “Sense and Sensibility” written by a lady was obtained also on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_a....

A photo of planetary scientist Alan Stern and astrophysicist Brian May was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ20....

A graphic of the “New Horizons” mission path in our solar system was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA22188.

A photo featuring 486958 “Ultima Thule” Arrokoth’s rotation was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ20....

A photo of a group of kids including Alan Stern was obtained here: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ20....