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1/ By the time journalists from @THECITYNY and @ColumbiaJourn started discussing an idea to memorialize every New Yorker that died due to the coronavirus, about 3,000 lives had already been lost.
That was early April.
That was early April.
2/ It was a number — even at an early stage — that made the project seem too ambitious for a single newsroom to execute.
As the numbers grew daily, it became clear that remembering every New Yorker who died would mean embracing collaboration at all levels.
As the numbers grew daily, it became clear that remembering every New Yorker who died would mean embracing collaboration at all levels.
3/ That idea is now called MISSING THEM — an ambitious collaborative journalism project working with @columbiajourn’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism Investigations, @newmarkjschool and @THECITYNY.
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Hour 7 of #NamingTheLost
Jannie Odoms Barnes, 76, Marrero, Louisiana
Jannie Odoms Barnes, 76, Marrero, Louisiana
Janet Cheryl Lovett Howard, 71, Loxahachee, Florida #NamingTheLost
James Brooks, 27, Chicago, Illinois #NamingTheLost
