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Amisha "Amy" Padnani is an American journalist who is an editor on the obituaries desk at The New York Times. [1] She is the creator of the Times’ series Overlooked, which features obituaries that tell the stories of individuals whose deaths were not originally reported by the Times, typically remarkable women and people of color.
The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert McG. Thomas. [4] The author of a starred Kirkus Review of 52 McGs wrote, "For the last half of the 1990s, readers of the New York Times could be excused if they searched out Thomas's work before they bothered with the front-page lead. Known as 'McGs.'—after the veteran reporter ...
A memorial service for longtime Gadsden Times reporter and columnist Darrell Norman is set for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at Wilson Funeral Home and Crematory in Fort Payne.
The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Obit is the first documentary [citation needed] to look into the world of newspaper obituaries, via the obituary desk at The New York Times. Writers are interviewed as they research and compose obituaries, including one for William P. Wilson, who coached John F. Kennedy on his historic TV debate with Richard Nixon, [4] and one for Dick Rich, who developed ground-breaking advertising for Alka ...
Sam Roberts (born June 20, 1947) is an American journalist who has written for The New York Times since 1983, serving as Urban Affairs Correspondent from 2005 to 2015. He now serves as an obituaries writer. [1] He is also host of a weekly television news talk show The New York Times Close Up on CUNY TV.
Alden Rogers Whitman (October 27, 1913 – September 4, 1990) was an American journalist who served as chief obituary writer for The New York Times from 1964 to 1976. In that role, he pioneered a more vivid, biographical approach to obituaries, some based on interviews with his subjects in advance of their deaths.