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Newspaper help

TheOldMole Jul 05 2010 04:51 PM

I need to know something, and I'm home, and I don't feel like going out, and I don't have a single newspaper lying around the house. At the beginning of a news story, there's the city from which the story is filed, and then a comma, and then the date, and then...what? Period? Em-dash?

Valadius Jul 05 2010 06:00 PM Re: Newspaper help

MGiM?

Frayed Knot Jul 05 2010 06:29 PM Re: Newspaper help

Sunday's NYTimes has nothing other than the origin of the story (capitalized) followed by an em-dash, such as: WASHINGTON -- ; or: LISTVYANKA, Russia -- No date other than the one on the top of the page.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 05 2010 07:16 PM Re: Newspaper help

CITY, St.* -- * abbreviated but for Utah (I think) * State not required for big cities. em dash is correct.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 05 2010 07:24 PM Re: Newspaper help

Generally, it's the em-dash. But in fact, it's highly dependent on the particular stylebook, no?

Edgy DC Jul 05 2010 07:47 PM Re: Newspaper help

If it's a wire service article, the service oft appears in parentheses after the city, right?

TheOldMole Jul 06 2010 01:00 AM Re: Newspaper help

I found through ProQuest a NY Times for 1953 -- which is the setting for Nick and Jake -- and discovered that back then, they did include the date.

Frayed Knot Jul 06 2010 07:02 AM Re: Newspaper help

Perhaps it wasn't assumed back then - as opposed to now - that everything in the paper happened the previous day making including a date more necessary.

metsguyinmichigan Jul 06 2010 08:43 AM Re: Newspaper help

Our style is all caps on the city, then the dash: GRAND RAPIDS -- Curtis Granderson returned to the city today to renounce his ties to the Yankees....