Former PD reporter Jim Naughton has a thought-provoking piece about the dearth and "death of obits" on the Obit site. He says that a study shows newspapers are running fewer, shorter obits or shifting them to classified ad revenue category.
But its study of obituary readership, mostly at smaller newspapers, “shows that obituaries -- along with community announcements and stories about ordinary people -- have the highest potential of all news items to grow readership," he writes.
You can read the complete article at:
http://obit-mag.com/articles/a-death-notice-for-obituaries
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