An Ode To The Obit w/ Don Van Natta and Jacob Feldman
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How to Write a Long Obituary
The impact has spun out in so many different directions and I feel like in related some degree when I'm putting together some of these research documents is like how do you even begin to start to think about writing those stories on deadline as a journalist as a researcher is mind-boggling. One of the other obit writers it's really distinguished in America right now is a man named James Haggerty he is the only obit writer for the Wall Street JournalHe had a great conversation with Kathleen McElroy she's a longtime New York Times veteran editor who is now a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She talked about the obits that were written about the leaders of the
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