
Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism
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The Evolution of Obituaries
In terms of the structure of the newspaper, certain rules and procedures have not been imposed on obituaries that are imposed on other news stories. What do you think are the differences between British and American obituaries? Well, that's a huge question, and because I'm not a historian of journalism, I can't account for how it's evolved. That's beyond my can. But at the same time, because we have wonderful, marqueename writers in our section, Biff Grimes, Bruce Weber, Sam Roberts. Margulie Fox. We are able to put a really interesting gloss, gloss in perhaps both senses of the term, on top of this basic structure that has
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