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Athletes Who Died Causes: How to Check Reports
Athletes who died causes: learn how to check a reported cause by its jurisdiction, source document, confirmation date, and the limits of its evidence.
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Anniversaries and archives: how old death notices resurface
Anniversaries and archives: how date-based features, reminders, round-number anniversaries, and search push old celebrity death notices back into view.
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Actors who died corrections: writing a request editors can act on
Actors who died corrections: the three kinds of request, the six things a written request should hold, a sample, and what to expect back from editors.
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Actors who died: remembering Poitier, White and Rickman
Remembering actors who died: Sidney Poitier, Betty White and Alan Rickman, with their death dates, representative roles and distinct screen legacies.
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California and New York obituary archives: sourcing
California and New York obituary archives include newspaper collections and memorial sites, but these are not vital-record registers. Learn how to cite sources.
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CDC death data Atlanta Seattle memorial notices: state view
CDC death data Atlanta Seattle memorial notices: 2024 state cause rankings for Georgia and Washington, who issues local notices, and how to log each source.
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How US sports leagues, teams and unions handle an athlete death announcement
A walk through the league, team and union channels that announce an athlete death in the US, plus how to verify a report and what to do when a league stays silent.
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Tracing a musician's death through Nashville and New Orleans memorial customs
Nashville and New Orleans musician death memorial customs diverge: label notices and CMA announcements versus jazz funerals and second lines.
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Deaths by year by profession: why coverage varies
Deaths by year by profession reflect obituary selection, not mortality. Learn the four editorial tests and where US vital records come from.
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Deaths by month: where celebrity death notices belong
Read deaths by month using the date a celebrity died, not when a notice appeared. Includes named historical examples and a weekly-notice checklist.