FWIW When I was taking journalism classes, style was not amorphous.
We had an entire book (400+ pages) which detailed every single specific stylistic rule we had to follow for our class. Had the same thing in high school newspaper.
I can only assume that NYT has an internal one as well.
>>dartos+(OP)
I wondered about that, but is that copyrightable? Can’t I use their style guide? If I did would the NYT sue me? If a writer who used it at the NYT went off on their own and started a substack and continued using the style, would they risk getting sued?
>>mc32+u
The style itself can’t really be copyrighted, but the expression of something using it can be, so you can use NYT’s style to the T in your Substack but you can’t copy their stuff which is expressed in their style.