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Mashable Project Tweets Tributes to Paris Terrorist Attack Victims

Each tweet gives the person's name, age and home country, and also includes a picture of them and a short anecdote.

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Nohemi Gonzalez of the United States was one of those killed during Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris. (Photo: Twitter)
Nohemi Gonzalez of the United States was one of those killed during Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. (Photo: Twitter)

In the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris news organizations are paying tribute to the deceased by gathering information to humanize them.

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The most ambitious project thus far was started this morning by Mashable. The digital media site has created a Twitter account called En mémoire (“In memory”), using the handle @ParisVictims. Each tweet gives the person’s name, age and home country, and also includes a picture of them and a short anecdote.

Only eight victims have been tweeted about as of Monday afternoon, but these entries show the project’s potential power:

Mashable’s project is reminiscent of “Portraits of Grief,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series from 2002 chronicling victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Mashable Project Tweets Tributes to Paris Terrorist Attack Victims
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