New York Times honors coronavirus victims with powerful front page

New Delhi: Taking Journalism to net level, New York Times has filled the entire front page of Sunday’s paper with the names of death victims from across the country.

The main purpose was to intended to convey the vastness and variety of the tragedy, the front page is a simple list of names and personal details taken from obituaries around the US.

The headline is “US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss”, with a sub-heading that reads: “They were not simply names on a list. They were us.”

the front page of sunday’s @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/L2xF8fPg4u

— Josh Crutchmer (@jcrutchmer) May 23, 2020

The paper released a preview of the front page on Saturday night, which quickly went viral on social media. The list includes the name, age and hometown of 1,000 coronavirus victims, along with a short description of each person.

this is part of a project headed by @simonelandon and directed for print by @standardregular. cover by tom bodkin. 1000 obituaries pulled from the nearly 100,000 obituaries of americans dead from the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/jNIeugcatG

— Josh Crutchmer (@jcrutchmer) May 23, 2020

The United States recorded a further 1,127 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing its total to 97,048 since the global pandemic began, news agency AFP said quoting tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

The country has also officially logged 1,621,658 cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, the tracker kept by the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30 pm, the report added.