Obituaries, grief & privacy: Legacy's news editor on NPR podcast

1 min readSep 12, 2023

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Listen to Linnea Crowther, Legacy's news editor and YouTube host, discuss how families choose to talk about causes of death in the obituaries they write, in this clip from the NPR podcast AirTalk, from LAist radio in Los Angeles:

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Linnea also talked more about this topic on Legacy's own podcast earlier this year:

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