Death & journalism

The last 3 months have been the gravest period of national tragedy & there's definitely an undercount of Covid deaths. But doing that at a mass scale is tougher

Tossing around this week’s National Interest in my head, I Googled ‘Death and Journalism’. Funnily, 19 of the first 20 entries were about the death “of” journalism. These included a couple, I must mention in supreme self-interest, that argued that it was wrong to say that journalism was dead. Thank you.

My search, however, was on how journalism covers, or relates to, death. Or more specifically, mass death. I found only this article on the Poynter website, which is a useful set of SOPs for a journalist reporting death. But not quite the opening gambit I was searching