Six years ago, filmmaker Vanessa Gould wrote to a half-dozen newspapers around the world with the news that Eric Joisel, the origami artist who was the subject of her first documentary, Between the ...

The joke used to be that the obits desk at a newspaper was where old journalists went to die. Writing obituaries was seen in the news business as a punishment, not something people wanted to do. But ...

At The New York Times, the obituary beat is no career dead-end. By THR Staff Last year, Tribeca brought us Very Semi-Serious, an inside look at a staple of NYC’s media world (the cartoons of The New ...

It looks like it’s time to submit a death notice for the Washington Post’s obituaries section. The paper’s longtime obit chief, Adam Bernstein, announced Tuesday that he was joining the New York Times ...