Detroit Free Press

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ALL CAPS indicates keyword used by other Knight-Ridder papers


-A-
ABUSE (use with animal, child, drug, elderly, parent, spouse)
ACCIDENT
ADDRESS (use when informational address is given; not where address is usually included)
AGE (add personal name)
airplane
ALCOHOL
ALTERNATIVE
ANALYSIS (use with subject)
ANECDOTE
ANIMAL
anniversary
annual meeting
APPOINTMENT (add personal name or namelist)
architecture
ARSON
art
ASSAULT
auto industry
automobile
autotalk
AWARD (add personal name)


-B-
baseball
basketball
beating
BIOGRAPHY (add personal name)
birth
birthday
BLACK
board of education
bombing
book
boxing
BUDGET (government)
BUSINESS


-C-
campaign (political; include candidate name when significant)
carjacking
CD-ROM
change
CHARITY (privately funded)
child (use for baby or infant; under age 12)
CHRONOLOGY
CLOSING
COLLEGE
column (use only with reporters who write columns and news stories)
COMPARISON
congress
construction (building, road)
consumer
contamination
contest
contract
contract negotiation (singular)
controversy (use for scandal)
COST (price)
COURT
CRIME (summary or statistical story; use with police when officer is accused of crime)
criticism (use sparingly)


-D-
DATE (when important, specific date is give; not annual)
DEATH (but not homicide)
DECREASE
DELAY
demonstration
denial
Detroit (stories about the city; statistic; important person in town)
development
DISCRIMINATION (use with age, ethnic, racial, religion, sex)
dispute (disagreement, argument)
downriver
downtown
DRUG (illegal)


-E-
ECONOMY
editorial
EDUCATION
effect
ELDERLY
ELECTION (stories about election itself; for earlier stories use campaign)
EMPLOYMENT
endorsement
espionage
ethics
ethnic


-F-
family
fashion
FINANCE (profit or loss)
FIRE
first
fitness
flooding
food
football
FORECAST (prediction)
FOREIGN (government)
FOUND
FRAUD
fuel


-G-
game (sport event results)
gardening
gasoline
GLOSSARY
golf
GOVERNMENT
GUIDELINE (advice, tips; see also howto)
gymnastics


-H-
HANDICAPPED
HEALTH (also use with personal name)
hearing (use with court)
high school
HISPANIC
HISTORY
hockey
holiday
homicide
HOMOSEXUAL
HOUSING
howto (instruction; see also guideline)
humor
hunger


-I-
IMAGE (person, organization, place)
incentive
INCREASE
industry (with type, e.g. auto)
injury
INTERVIEW (use with personal name)
investigation
issue


-J-
joa (joint operating agreement)
JUVENILE (teenager; 12 or under, use child)


-L-
language
law
LAWSUIT
legislation (instead of bill)
letter (letter to editor; letter from reader)
LIFESTYLE
LIST


-M-
MAJOR STORY (use with subject)
man
MASS TRANSIT
media (newspaper, radio, television)
medicine
meeting
Michigan (stories about state; statistic)
MIDEAST
MILITARY
minority (use with black, Hispanic, etc.)
movie
MULTIPLE
MURDER (use carefully since this is a legal term; homicide is
music


-N-
NAMELIST
near miss
negotiation
neighborhood


-O-
OBITUARY
official (elected official accused of crime)
Olympic
OPENING
opposition
ORGANIZED CRIME


-P, Q-
parent
POLICE
pollution (use with air, chemical, noise, etc.)
POPULATION
positive (significant upbeat story about group, area; include
poverty
preferred)
preps
president
PRISON
PROFILE (company, organization or area)
program
promotion (only for Michigan or Detroit tourism; add place name)
proposal
psychology (behavior)
question (Q & A format)
QUOTE (add personal name)


-R-
racial
racing (automobile, horse, etc.)
RANKING (ranked list)
REACTION
real estate
RECORD (biggest, longest, etc.)
recording (music, sound or video)
religion
REPORT
RESULT
REVIEW (use with cd-rom, music, movie, restaurant, television, theater, web)
road
ROBBERY
ruling
rural


-S-
SAFETY
SALARY (add name or position)
schedule
SCHOOL
science
SENTENCE
SERIES (add to memo and keyword fields; must be searched as "series")
settlement
sex
SEX CRIME
shooting
SMUGGLING
SPACE
SPEECH
sport or spt
sport utility vehicle
spouse
stabbing
STATISTIC
study
subject)
suburb
SUPPORT
survey (use instead of poll)


-T-
technology (use sparingly)
telephone (use when phone number in story)
television
TERRORISM
TEXT (when speech or book excerpt is in story) theater
trade
trial (use with court)
tricounty
TRIP (going anywhere; add personal name and place)
truck


-U-
unemployment
unidentified (accident, homicide)
UNUSUAL
UP (Upper Peninsula)
urban
url
US (United States)
utility


-V-
VERDICT
victim (use with police when officer is injured or killed)
violence
visit (prominent person, usually coming to Detroit or Michigan; add personal name, city)


-W, Y-
WEATHER
web
WELFARE
WOMAN
yakfact (when Yak Fact is included in story)


Notes:

Don't use Corp., Co., or Inc.


- Standardized Names -

DIA - Detroit Institute of Arts
DFreePress - Detroit Free Press
DNews - Detroit News
DPL - Detroit Public Library
DSO - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
DTW - Detroit Metropolitan Airport


- Professional Sports Teams -

Tigers, Lions, Pistons, Red Wings


-Colleges-

U-M University of Michigan
UDM University of Detroit Mercy
Others: use generally accepted acronym (MSU, CMU, WSU, etc.)

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Originally posted 6-17-99.
Last Updated: 04/9/2001
Carolyn Edds
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