Global Journalist

May 2008

Story Archives

First Quarter 2008

Feb. 2008: Slain Turkish Armenian Journalist's Death Commemorated

The first anniversary of the murder of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was commemorated throughout Turkey with rallies on Jan. 19.

Feb. 2008: Death Beat: the Art of Advanced Obituaries

As he was dying from lung cancer, Joseph Yeardley “J.Y.” Smith grabbed my shoulder and drew me close to his hospice bed. He was a former Marine – Korean War vintage – and his voice quivered in near anger.

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