As the COVID death toll grows, so do the obituary pages
As the COVID death toll grows, so do the obituary pages As of December 1, the coronavirus pandemic has killed 1.47 million people worldwide and devastated the global economy. The fallout has generally wreaked havoc throughout the news industry worldwide: employees have fallen sick, advertisers and subscribers have retrenched, and cutbacks and newsroom layoffs have become commonplace. That same grim force, however, has also powered a remote corner of the industry: obituaries. A growth in the number of obituaries has brought new readers, new advertisers, a new sense of purpose to newsrooms, and...
Source: cjr.org