language matters

Updated rules for language, terms for marginalized communities being discussed for new edition of Canadian Press Stylebook

By ALLISON RIDGWAY and ANIA BESSONOV Staff Reporters The Canadian Press (CP) is discussing how to update its stylebook to reflect changing language surrounding LGBTQ, Indigenous and disabled communities, CP’s editor-in-chief said during a Ryerson Journalism Research Centre panel earlier this month. But the national news agency must keep its clients and readers in mind when contemplating such changes, said…

Upcoming panel on how language evolves – and how journalism evolves with it