Alicia’s writing captured the attention and emotions of thousands of readers. This is just a sampling of places her story’s been featured:
San Francisco Chronicle
Update on Alicia’s story “Alicia Parlette faces final stages of journey” (4/16/10): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/15/MNSC1CUMNU.DTL
Original Chronicle series: sfgate.com/alicia
Pictures that accompanied the original article series (navigation is in the bottom right-hand corner): http://www.sfgate.com/gate/special/pages/2005/alicia/gallery_0417.shtml
Blog on SFGate: Alicia’s story continued: Her blog (2007).
Chronicle readers respond to Alicia’s series (6/12/05): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5V1.DTL
Letters to the Editor (6/10/05): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/10/EDGMMD62O81.DTL
Reno Gazette Journal
Article about Alicia, “UNR graduate Alicia Parlette sees impact of her story as last chapter closes” (4/21/10): http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20104210428
UNR Sagebrush
Update (4/20/10): http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2010/04/20/graduate-author-nears-end-of-battle-with-cancer/
Article about Alicia (9/1/09): http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2009/09/01/one-alum’s-battle-with-cancer/
NPR
Alicia’s Story: The Latest Chapter (2/28/06): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237323
Writing About Cancer (6/7/05): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4683792&ps=rs
ABC
Person of the Week, June 2005: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=837787&page=1
UNR Reynolds School of Journalism
Alicia as part of the 2005 Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer Program (October 2005): http://www.unr.edu/journalism/content/051001/051024page2.htm
Reactions to Alicia’s work by the professional journalism community
Below the Fold Update (4/15/10): http://belowthefold.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/04/cancer-cant-kill-what-she-did-for-modern-media.html
– Original post (6/11/05): http://belowthefold.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/alicias_story_b.html
Citizen Paine (6/13/05): http://www.citizenpaine.com/2005/06/reaction_to_ali.html
Alicia mentioned in an American Journalism Review story about newspapers and stories about fatal illnesses ( June/July 2006):http://www.ijpc.org/Return%20of%20the%20Sob%20Sisters%20-%20American%20Journalism%20Review.htm
Society of Professional Journalists
Alicia was awarded a 2005 Outstanding Emerging Journalist award by the Society of Professional Journalists (10/20/05): http://www.brassandzin.com/EIJpressrelease2005.htm
Around the interwebs
Garden Lust blog post about Alicia (4/18/10): http://mendogardens.blogspot.com/2010/04/alicias-final-chapter.html
Bonnie Russell “Courage is a choice. A Courageous Woman of 28 is Dying” (4/17/10): http://open.salon.com/blog/bonnie_russell/2010/04/17/courage_is_a_choice_a_courageous_woman_of_28_is_dying
Mentioned on SFist (4/16/10): http://sfist.com/2010/04/16/day_around_the_bay_425.php
Blog post update on Alicia’s Story (4/11/10): http://wiredal.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/alicias-story-part-2/
– Original post (6/13/05): http://wiredal.wordpress.com/2005/06/13/alicias-story/
Article about the May 2005 Sarcoma Alliance Walk/Run (published 2006): http://www.sarcomaalliance.org/News/SarcomaNews3-06.pdf?pdfile=SarcomaNews3-06
Thread on sportsjournalists.com about the series (July 2006): http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/index.php?topic=29078.0
Archived mailing list email (hosted by LaughingSquid) about the “Cancer In So Many Words” panel event held on 9/22/05 of which Alicia was a member (9/7/05): http://www.mail-archive.com/squidlist@lists.laughingsquid.org/msg09232.html
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Parlette
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