{"id":9376,"date":"2016-02-02T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T18:31:50","slug":"the-internet-the-news-industry-and-the-art-of-the-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-internet-the-news-industry-and-the-art-of-the-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet, the news industry, and the art of the obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With January taking its toll on the list of famous people that many people love, Dave Lee&#8217;s look at the heady mix of celebrity death and?how the internet changes the reporting of notable deaths is very much relevant (even if it was posted late last year):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most conventions in journalism have been dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. Many an old-timer?s heart has been broken when traffic analysis shows that a three-month long investigation (3,000 words) has been completely overlooked by readers in favour of a numbered list of something far less important.?The trick, of course, is to present the investigation in way that suits the new way of reading. That attitude change is happening, slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Obits are next.<\/p>\n<p>I?m not suggesting we reduce lives to ?9 Times Nelson Mandela Totally Saved The Day? or such-like, but instead we reassess how to create, quickly, modern-day obituaries that cover death in a way that doesn?t leave readers fatigued and fed-up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/famous-people-just-keep-on-dying-74fb37448aab#.pcdapp9ml\">Famous People?Just Keep On Dying<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With January taking its toll on the list of famous people that many people love, Dave Lee&#8217;s look at the heady mix of celebrity death and?how the internet changes the reporting of notable deaths is very much relevant (even if it was posted late last year): Most conventions in journalism have been dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. Many an old-timer?s heart has been broken when traffic analysis shows that a three-month long investigation (3,000 words) has been completely overlooked by readers in favour of a numbered list of something far less important.?The trick, of course, is to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The internet, the news industry, and the art of the obituary","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576],"tags":[5619,211,5620,81,234,2328,5478,712],"class_list":["post-9376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-dave-lee","tag-death","tag-industry","tag-media","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-obituary","tag-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9377,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}