Post Says Goodbye to Smith
The Post today honored in an obituary its own former obituary editor: J.Y. Smith, who passed away this week.
“Until [Smith’s tenure as obit editor], Metro editors routinely tapped young, inexperienced or bored-looking staffers to write the major obits that flashed across the wire. The “anybody free?” method had persisted even as The Post emerged as a national newspaper in the early 1970s by publishing the Pentagon Papers and breaking the Watergate scandal,” the paper says.
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