Alana Baranick

An obituary writer for The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; winner of the 2005 American Society of Newspaper Editors award in the obituary category; chief author of "Life on the Death Beat: A Handbook for Obituary Writers." For more information, visit Alana's Web site: www.deathbeat.com


Writing About the Dead and Loving It

Like members of an outlaw cult, obituary writers have been gathering annually in quiet, out-of-the-way places for the last seven years to discuss their craft and commune with fellow newsroom misfits.


The most recent confab of grim writers, the… Read more

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