Pressing concerns

The horrendous bombing in Manchester earlier this week has appalled the world and affected so many people, so deeply. And I’m not really qualified to talk about the events in depth other than express my sadness and revulsion.

But what I couldn’t help notice on Twitter in the past few days has been the way that the bombing has led to a lot of discussion about so-called “death knocking” – where newspaper journalists contact friends or family of dead or missing people as part of their research.

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