The Making of an Obituary Writer-And a Man

Once I began to write obits, words John McCullough, the great chief editorial writer of the old Bulletin said to me years earlier, came to mind: Writing editorials is like peeing in your pants while wearing a blue surge suit. To craft the best possible obituary, I called upon every bit of skill, kno...

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Published in:Nieman reports 2006-10, Vol.60 (3), p.86
Main Author: Nicholson, Jim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Criminal investigations
Deaths
Editors
Nonfiction
Public relations
Writers
Writing
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Summary:Once I began to write obits, words John McCullough, the great chief editorial writer of the old Bulletin said to me years earlier, came to mind: Writing editorials is like peeing in your pants while wearing a blue surge suit. To craft the best possible obituary, I called upon every bit of skill, knowledge and life experience I possessed, and those included private investigation, analysis, politics, religion, history, car salesman, cement finisher, oil field hand, city dweller, country boy, drunk, reformed drunk, dock worker, public relations, Sunday school teacher, military counter-intelligence, and so on.
ISSN:0028-9817