Dame Esther Rantzen: That's Life! presenter, Childline founder and assisted dying campaigner
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I assumed she had died but headlines are usually supposed to summarize an event, not just say someones name and who they are. I guess outlets just have these profiles ready to go on older celebrities and hit publish before actually filling in any details surrounding their deaths.
That's an obituary rather than a news story, and yes, it would have been ready to go.
I used to work for a newspaper and one of the little annual jobs was updating the Queen Mother's eight-page obituary supplement. She died aged 101.