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How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.

One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition.

Whitman’s name doesn’t come up in Vanessa Gould’s “Obit,” a documentary about The Times’s necrology team at work.

This week The New York Times Magazine publishes The Lives They Lived, its annual necrology — or “death yearbook,” as Jenna puts it.

In the necrology for the year 1616, the names of Shakespeare and Cervantes stand out.