The AP picked up Alicia’s passing; this lead to a lot of national media coverage. News and news organization coverage compiled below (I’ve excluded most news aggregators that re-run the Chronicle articles or brief obituaries):
West Coast News Organizations
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://www.seattlepi.com/national/418882_parlette22.html
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14942077?nclick_check=1
L.A. Times online: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-cancer-columnist,0,1161818.story
LA Times obituary staff: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/04/alicia-parlette-28yearold-copy-editor-who-wrote-about-her-cancer-for-the-san-francisco-chronicle.html
3KCRA.com: http://www.kcra.com/news/23238995/detail.html
Professional Media Organizations
MediaBistro.com: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/journos/sf_chronicle_writer_alicia_parlette_loses_her_battle_with_cancer_159470.asp
Online News Entities
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100422/us-cancer-columnist/
philly.com: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/92030004.html
TopNews.com: http://topnews.us/content/217778-alicia-parlette-breathed-her-last-thursday
NaplesNews.com: http://blogs.naplesnews.com/edcblog/2010/04/alicia-parlette-faces-final-stages-of-journey.html
Tenessean.com: http://sec.tennessean.com/article/02fD3T3esrgAZ
OneNewsPage: http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Front+Page/20100416/10141130/Alicia-Parlette-faces-final-stages-of-journey.htm
LifeInLegacy.com: http://www.lifeinlegacy.com/display.php?weekof=2010-04-24
StandUpToCancer: http://www.standup2cancer.org/blog_su2c/2010/04/with_you_we_stand_-_4272010.php
L.A. Observed: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2010/04/sf_chronicle_editor_who_w.php
Around the Interwebz
http://www.techjackal.net/interesting-stuff/2010/04/23/the-final-chapter-of-“alicia’s-story”/
http://topnews.com.sg/content/21396-alicia-parlette-s-bravery-remembered
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1506/journalist-alicia-parlette-dies-rare-alveolar-soft-part-sarcoma.html
http://www.huliq.com/9501/92920/young-author-alicia-parlette-passes-away-cancer-23
http://www.yelp.com/topic/berkeley-sad-news-alicia-parlette-now-in-hospice-care
http://topics.treehugger.com/article/00tMdrW4Le9bv?q=San+Francisco
http://www.topix.com/forum/health/TAIV912VGK59SFCLH
http://marginalprophet.com/2010/04/things-you-can’t-begin-to-spell-are-never-good/