diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ced66a7a..abf4aab8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,19 +5,18 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.4
 
   - Added support for Python 3.1 and 3.2.
   - Adapt types 'bytearray' (from Python 2.6), 'memoryview' (from Python 2.7)
-    and other objects implementing the 'Revised Buffer Protocol' to bytea data
-    type.
-  - Added `register_composite()` function to cast PostgreSQL composite types
+    and other objects implementing the "Revised Buffer Protocol" to 'bytea'
+    data type.
+  - Added 'register_composite()' function to cast PostgreSQL composite types
     into Python tuples/namedtuples.
-  - More efficient iteration on named cursors, fetching `itersize` records at
+  - More efficient iteration on named cursors, fetching 'itersize' records at
     time from the backend.
-  - The build script refuses to guess values if pg_config is not found.
   - Connections and cursors are weakly referenceable.
   - Added 'b' and 't' mode to large objects: write can deal with both bytes
     strings and unicode; read can return either bytes strings or decoded
     unicode.
-  - COPY sends Unicode data to files implementing io.TextIOBase.
-  - The build script refuses to guess values if pg_config is not found.
+  - COPY sends Unicode data to files implementing 'io.TextIOBase'.
+  - The build script refuses to guess values if 'pg_config' is not found.
   - Improved PostgreSQL-Python encodings mapping. Added a few
     missing encodings: EUC_CN, EUC_JIS_2004, ISO885910, ISO885916,
     LATIN10, SHIFT_JIS_2004.