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Do you have a feeling that the dead celebrities have become more? Or rather, the media is reporting more and more about that or that person has passed away?

Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Dean, Disney Influer Dominique Brown, Rachael Lillis who made his voice for three figures in the TV series « Pokémon »-how did their death become a news?

Research and statistics are missing at present, but several Swedish media confirms that the gut feeling in this case is something on the tracks.

Martina Lindvall, who is the one responsible for runes at SR’s eco -editorial, believes that the unofficial hierarchies that exist among dead celebrities are rocking.

– My view is that we are currently in the middle of a shift. In the past, it was public home celebrities or people in the fine culture that we reported on. Now there is a discussion that we need to expand. We are also public service, we will represent everyone, ”she says.

Should a celebrity However, death becomes a « stop the presses » news, however, the hierarchies consider. DN’s survey gives a hum about the criteria: the dead person should be known to a larger public, have made an impression in people’s lives, either emotionally through his life and work or through his office, have been popular or had decisive power over people’s lives.

– It may seem strange and cynical to sit and decide who is worth a live broadcast and who is not, but that’s it, says Martina Lindvall.

In the case of celebrities of that degree, and which have reached a certain age or have a failing health, it is not uncommon for the media to be prepared when the death message comes well. The information that someone is for death has not rarely come to know them through relatives, publishers, agents or social media. There are ready -made memory texts and elements, and in some cases lists of people you can call to get a comment.

In Sweden is TT News Agency, which provides news texts to virtually all Swedish media, a major supplier and spreader of news about dead public figures. However, exactly who you have ready runes over the editorial director Vicktor Olsson does not want to reveal.

– In our work we make the effort to be fast, which is one of the reasons why we work that way. But in most cases, journalism is more situation -related, he says.

For good and evil, he adds. Celebrities are like all of us others, they can die all of a sudden. Sometimes they die in accidents or on their own, and sometimes they are moved away at far too young years.

All like someone Once worked on a major news editor knows what happens when a public person submits. Isaac Krona, reporter at the ecor’s editor, describes the mood as very special.

– It’s something that happens, it becomes a sharp mood, there are a lot of strong emotions in the air. Then I have always felt that it is among the finest and most important task you have as a journalist. It is even duty to try to do its very best, he says.

Isak Krona has received a scholarship from the Publicist Club to go to the United States and visit The New York Times. The newspaper has a special desk that only deals with runes, which has also made it leading. Their pre -written memory words are many. Sometimes even the writers have to go away before they are published. That was the case when ex-president Jimmy Carter died this summer. One of Runan’s two writers, Roy Reed, passed away in 2017.

– A rune with them often has an international impact, even if it is a person who may be considered less known. If they send out a push that the German game designer Klaus Teuber has passed away, the man who created the board game Settlers of Catan, then it is free for everyone else to report on it, they put the bar, says Isak Krona.

When reporting If a celebrity that passed away, the audience is often divided, points out Karolina Andersson, news manager for Culture at SVT. On the one hand, there is the half who knows very little or nothing at all about the person, and partly the one who feels sad and missing.

– In these situations we will be people -forming, almost give a history lesson. At the same time, we should target those who have had a close relationship with the person, they want to hear people tell and see clips. There we sit on a gold mine with our moving archive, she says.

She gets support from Martina Lindvall at SR, who sits on an even larger archive.

– It will be a bit of a funeral coffee and then we can offer unique. We can send old interviews or if there is an artist who has passed away playing songs. But we can also bring a former US correspondent who can tell about how Jimmy Carter joked an airplane, or play a news clip from how it sounded when Birgitta Dahl breastfeed in Parliament. We have seen these kinds of things seem to be very appreciated, ”she says.

Yes, what can trump it? It would be « last word ». An interview program in which well -known Swedes in a secret interview with Mark Levengood, who is broadcast after their death, tells themselves their story. So far, only one episode has aired, guest then was Lasse Berghagen.

« The last word » raises Many questions – which have been interviewed, how do you approach someone with the question of participating, what does the privacy agreement look like with the participants – but are surrounded by so much « we cannot go into » that it is hardly possible to write about the production. However, Susanne Nylén, Press Manager at Viaplay, can tell that most sections are recorded, that « the last word » is a completed production and that discretion and respect are the key words.

– It is an extremely mystery. For example, it is not even cameramen in the studio that is filming, but it happens with robotic cameras that are stationary in the studio. Those who handled the cameras have had no listening and thus did not know what was said in the interview. The program is only cut after the participant has passed away, she says.

Susanne Nylén calls the program a success. If you count the viewership figures from TV3 and Viaplay, it was over half a million who saw Lasse Berghagen say hello and thanks for everything.

The interest in dead celebrities is great, it confirms TT’s Vicktor Olsson. However, he believes that it has always been, but that now, in connection with digitalisation, when the media can see what readers, viewers and listeners click on, can also see that the interest of the audience is great.

– It is a material that is requested by our customers, and we can see ocularly see that it goes home with their readers as well. It is often placed high on the start pages, he says.

You can ask If it is so cynical that killing celebrities pull clicks, no matter who it is. Why else would it be a news that someone who played a supporting role in one or two « Harry Potter » movies has passed away from high age? However, Isak Krona does not believe that it is about cynicism, but about the ongoing shift when it comes to reporting on dead celebrities.

– Should we just pay attention to dead celebrities and politicians, or should we pay attention to people who have in any way changed or affect our everyday lives? Today, it is not as obvious as before who has meant something to many people, he says.

Here mentions a memory word in The New York Times that made his world stop.

– They published a rune over Lance Reddick. He was a not very famous American actor. But I knew who he was because he made the voice in a video game that I have played a lot. Then I was very moved, it was as if a friend passed away.

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