Last Word (The New York Times)
Last Word ( English for " Last Word ") is a series of video interviews of prominent people in the New York Times . The interviewees know that these recordings will only be published after their death - as an obituary. The New York Times already had a long tradition for necrologists , established by its editor Adolph Ochs (publisher from 1896 to 1935) and later promoted by the interviews that its reporter Alden Whitman did around the world for this purpose between 1964 and 1976 Made celebrities from Graham Greene to Harry S. Truman . The series of video interviews begins in 2006 with Art Buchwald (1925–2007). Eleven videos were published from January 2007 to April 2012. Another 15 have been produced so far (July 2012).