necrology

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How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.

From Washington Post

Whitman’s name doesn’t come up in Vanessa Gould’s “Obit,” a documentary about The Times’s necrology team at work.

From New York Times

This week The New York Times Magazine publishes The Lives They Lived, its annual necrology — or “death yearbook,” as Jenna puts it.

From New York Times

In the necrology for the year 1616, the names of Shakespeare and Cervantes stand out.

From New York Times

I possess no complete necrology; but I know there were ninety-one shot at Aerschot and that there, under pain of death, their fellow-citizens were compelled to dig their graves.

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