AP Service Guide

EDITORS:

This AP Service Guide is designed to assist editors in finding specific categories of news in the AP news report.

IPTC-format coding for the following categories of news may be found in the header of each story. The categories and their coding are as follows:

General news originating from outside the United States: ixx

General news originating from the United States: axx

General news originating only from Washington, D.C.: wxx

General political news originating only from the United States: pxx

(NOTE: The code axx does not include stories coded wxx and pxx)

All sports news: sxx

All financial news: fxx

All entertainment news: exx

All travel news: txx

In addition, you may locate other categories of news in the AP news report using simple text searches for a string of characters.

The following list shows what a search for each string of characters will produce:

BC-  All AP news                       

-FEA-  All AP news features              

REGIONS

BC-AA  All news from Antarctica          

BC-AP  All AP News Digests and Advisories

BC-AF  All news from Africa               

BC-AS  All news from Asia-Pacific          

BC-CB  All news from the Caribbean       

BC-CN  All news from Canada             

BC-EU  All news from Europe              

BC-LT  All news from Latin America        

BC-ML  All news from the Middle East     

BC-UN  All news from the United Nations  

BC-US  All news from United States       

OTHER NEWS CATEGORIES

-SCI-  Science               

-MED-  Medical               

-TEC-  Technology             cyberspace             Internet  

-ODD-  Oddities              

-REL-  Religion              

-WEA-  Weather               

-OLY-  Olympics              

INDIVIDUAL SPORTS CATEGORIES

 -ARC-             Archery                        

 -ATH-             Athletics                      

 -CAR-             Auto Racing                    

 -BAD-             Badminton                      

 -BBA-             Baseball American League       

 -BBC-             Baseball College               

 -BBH-             Baseball High School           

 -BBI-             Baseball International         

 -BBM-             Baseball Minor Leagues         

 -BBN-             Baseball National League       

 -BBO-             Baseball Other                 

 -BBW-             Baseball Women's               

 -BBY-             Baseball Youth                 

 -BKC-             Basketball College             

 -BKH-             Basketball High School         

 -BKL-             Basketball Women's Pro         

 -BKN-             Basketball NBA                 

 -BKO-             Basketball Other               

 -BKW-             Basketball Women's College     

 -BIA-             Biathalon                      

 -BOB-             Bobsled                        

 -BOX-             Boxing                         

 -CAN-             Canoeing                       

 -CRI-             Cricket                        

 -CUR-             Curling                        

 -CYC-             Cycling                        

 -DIV-             Diving                         

 -EQU-             Equestrian                     

 -FBC-             American Football College      

 -FBH-             American Football High School  

 -FBN-             American Football NFL          

 -FBO-             American Football Other        

 -FEN-             Fencing                        

 -FHK-             Field Hockey                   

 -FIG-             Figure skating                 

 -GLF-             Golf                           

 -GYM-             Gymnastics                     

 -HNB-             Handball                       

 -HKC-             Ice Hockey College             

 -HKN-             Ice Hockey NHL                 

 -HKO-             Ice Hockey Other               

 -JUD-             Judo                           

 -LUG-             Luge                           

 -PEN-             Modern Pentathlon              

 -MOT-             Motorcycling                   

 -OLY-             Olympics                       

 -RAC-             Horse racing                   

 -ROW-             Rowing                         

 -RGL-             Rugby League                   

 -RGU-             Rugby Union                    

 -SAI-             Sailing                        

 -SHO-             Shooting                       

 -SKE-             Skeleton                       

 -SKI-             Skiing                         

 -SBD-             Snowboarding                   

 -SOC-             Soccer                         

 -SOF-             Softball                       

 -SPD-             Speed skating                  

 -SQA-             Squash                         

 -SUM-             Sumo wrestling                 

 -SWM-             Swimming                       

 -TTN-             Table tennis                   

 -TAE-             Taekwondo                      

 -TEN-             Tennis                         

 -TRI-             Triathlon                      

 -VOL-             Volleyball                     

 -WPO-             Water Polo                     

 -WEI-             Weightlifting                  

 -WRE-             Wrestling                      

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