News website Axios said the editorial team will now refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America per Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14172.
“Our top priority at Axios is to provide readers with clinical, fact-based reporting,” the news outlet posted on X. “Our standard is to use ‘Gulf of America (renamed by U.S. from Gulf of Mexico)’ in our reporting because our audience is mostly U.S.-based compared to other publishers with international audiences.”
But the statement from Axios continued, saying “the government should never dictate how any news organization makes editorial decisions.