The Jeff Beckham Weblog

Updated: The reporter, J. Michael Parker, has left the paper “by mutual agreement“.

Spotted first on Gawker:

An elderly couple featured in a San Antonio Express-News story about “the secret to a happy marriage” died within two weeks of each other after they were interviewed for the story and before its publication.

What’s worse, the paper did not mention their deaths in the report. They had to run this apology.

Nell and Wallace Crain, a couple who were featured in an Express-News Page 1A story and photo on “the secret to a happy marriage,” died between the writing of the story last summer and its publication in the San Antonio Express-News on Monday. The deaths were not mentioned in the report.
The Express-News apologizes to family and friends of the couple, and to our readers, for the egregious omission.

For now, the story can still be found online (with the correction).