necrology

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021

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 • Apr. 25, 2017

I mean, no Rivette in the necrology montage?

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2016

One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Though largely ecclesiastical, its author— a college A. M.—realizes the value of statistics in references to population, necrology, taxes, militia, farming, and other industries, and weaves them into his rambling story.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise