AP changes style on ‘illegal immigrant’ – Poynter
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The Associated Press is changing its Stylebook entry on the term “illegal immigrant,” the news cooperative announced Tuesday. The new entry reads in part:
illegal immigration Entering or residing in a country in violation of civil or criminal law. Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant. Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission.
In a statement, AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll says the change came, in part, because of ongoing work at AP dedicated to “ridding the Stylebook of labels.”
Immigration is just one area where AP is doing such work, Carroll says in the statement. Now it recommends “Saying someone was ’diagnosed with schizophrenia’ instead of schizophrenic, for example.”
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