Bruce weber new york times biography

Bruce Weber — not that Bruce Weber — has spent more than eight years writing obituaries for The New York Times.

Last week, he wrote his own farewell, penning a story on his resignation from the paper.

Bruce weber new york times biography

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The journalist, who joined The Times as a staff editor for the Sunday magazine section in 1986, caught up with WWD to talk about his most memorable stories, how he approaches writing about the dead, and whether his departure is indicative of a larger obit for print media.

WWD: How did you get assigned the obit beat?

Bruce Weber: I ended up in obits because I had gone off to write a book about baseball umpires.

When I came back — the paper had promised to hold a job for me, but they didn’t tell me what the job was going to be — there were two or three possibilities, and obits seemed like the most interesting one. Before that I had been theate