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Thursday, July 30, 2009
The RIPpy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Obitutainment
Farewell Footage
In the past two years, producers at The New York Times on the Web have stockpiled more than two dozen video obits of famous subjects. Ten more are currently "in production."
"There is editing and production and interviewing, and it takes time. You have to do a lot of research, get archival footage, acquire rights to things and go through our own video library," David Rummel, the Times senior producer for news and documentary, told Editor & Publisher magazine.
At the time of this writing, The Times has published four Vobits: Art Buchwald, Dith Pran, Odetta and Stewart Mott. In each case, the Website agreed to keep the involvement and identity of the subject confidential until the time of death.
Is your news organization doing this? If not, why not?
"There is editing and production and interviewing, and it takes time. You have to do a lot of research, get archival footage, acquire rights to things and go through our own video library," David Rummel, the Times senior producer for news and documentary, told Editor & Publisher magazine.
At the time of this writing, The Times has published four Vobits: Art Buchwald, Dith Pran, Odetta and Stewart Mott. In each case, the Website agreed to keep the involvement and identity of the subject confidential until the time of death.
Is your news organization doing this? If not, why not?
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Librarians at your service
In case you missed a posting about this new librarian website, check it out.
It's staffed by librarians who are happy to answer death-related questions.
It's staffed by librarians who are happy to answer death-related questions.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Jeff Goldblum has died. Twitter says so.
Without putting it into words, Stephen Colbert made an excellent point on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central June 29, 2009, when he reported the death of actor Jeff Goldblum based on information provided by Twitter.
It's the same thing as the obit writer's Rule No. 1: Make sure they're dead. And Rule No. 2 is like unto it: Make sure your sources are reliable.
It's the same thing as the obit writer's Rule No. 1: Make sure they're dead. And Rule No. 2 is like unto it: Make sure your sources are reliable.
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