The Obituary as Journalism

What the obituary form produces for the journalism record and how it has evolved

The Form

The obituary is among the most significant and least appreciated journalism forms: the specific account of a life that is published at the moment of death, that must be accurate under the conditions of immediacy and the emotional context of loss, and that provides the historical record for the person whose life is being documented. The best obituary journalism is among the best narrative journalism.

The Evolution

The evolution of the obituary: the NYT Overlooked series -- which produces obituaries for historically significant people who were not covered at the time of their deaths -- is the specific innovation that the obituary form has produced in response to the accountability question of who gets a newspaper obituary and who does not. The series documents the systematic omissions of the historical record and corrects them.

JournoNews Coverage

JournoNews covers the obituary as journalism because the accountability journalism of journalism practice requires examining the forms that the profession uses to create the historical record, and because the obituary is the form whose connection to the historical record is most direct.

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