By: Joe Strupp The Wall Street Journal has joined with Tributes.com to create a new online classified obituaries section at WSJ.com, the paper announced Monday.
A release on the new Web offering calls it an "opportunity to create personalized tributes commemorating the lives of loved ones, an online community providing support during times of loss, and access to current local and national obituaries across the U.S." It adds that Tributes.com will now featuring the Journal's "Remembrances" content in its national news section, "which highlights the stories of notable national figures that have recently passed away."
Tributes.com is a new interactive obituary site that allows Web users to leave comments and memories about those who have died. The Journal service allows users to post multi-media tributes for a fee that ranges in price depending on different elements such as length and use of features.
It offers the ability to "post unlimited text, pictures, and videos; memory books for family and friends to leave messages of condolence; as well as music and customized URL addresses," the release stated. "An enhanced suite of print obituary products in the Journal, which will appear within the paper's Remembrances section, are also being offered as upgrade options to tributes sold on Tributes.com, the new WSJ.com classified obituaries section and by Tributes channel of funeral home partners."
Patricia Rodeawald, director of digital classifieds for WSJ.com, stated: "This new section on WSJ.com provides users a way to memorialize their loved ones on a national scale without the boundaries often encountered with other services, and we are pleased to be working with Tributes.com to bring this new section to our site."
The Journal's Tributes.com page is found at:
http://wsj.tributes.com
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