RIP Jennifer Frey

[Drip]

Former Philadelphia Daily News, New York Times and Washington Post sports writer Jennifer Frey has died after a lengthy illness. She was 47. RIP

 

[TopOfTheCircle]

She's left behind a 17-year-old daughter as well. Hard for me to comprehend. She's the second person I knew at the Crimson to have departed us too soon.

March 28, 2016 — Jennifer Frey, 1968-2016

 

[Moderator1]

Obit from the Post. Multiple organ failure. Ugh. So young. RIP

Jennifer Frey, former writer for The Post's Sports and Style pages, dies at 47

 

[pseudo]

From her first editor, Chuck Pollock:

Pollock: Frey showed a special gift from the start

 

[Moderator1]

There's also a Go Fund Me for her daughter that has brought in a good bit of cash

Click here to support Ryan's college fund by Jody Goldstein

 

[TopOfTheCircle]

From her first editor, Chuck Pollock:

Pollock: Frey showed a special gift from the start

+1 on this remembrance. Wow.

 

[Songbird]

Condolences to Jennifer's family, friends, and colleagues 'round the world.

 

[dixiehack]

I never knew anything about her, but this Dave McKenna piece has me on the verge of breaking down in tears.

http://deadspin.com/the-writer-who-was-too-strong-to-live-1785661187

 

[HanSenSE]

I never knew anything about her, but this Dave McKenna piece has me on the verge of breaking down in tears.

http://deadspin.com/the-writer-who-was-too-strong-to-live-1785661187

Read it on the recommendation of a Twitter friend. Took me an hour to get through it, stopping for the occasional WTF? Sad (not in a Trump sense).

 

[Dyno]

I very briefly knew Jennifer in the early 90s. She was amazing and so impressive. We were the same age and even though I wasn't a journalist, I felt like such a slacker in comparison with her. I remember being jealous of her success.

Earlier this year, she randomly popped into my head. I did some googling, couldn't find any recent stories and eventually found her Facebook page with the link to the gofundme for her daughter. Jennifer was still alive at that point. I really was curious about what happened to her but since I was never even a blip on her radar, I felt weird about reaching out to any of our mutual friends to find out. Like it was none of my business, which it wasn't. Still, I wondered and I felt terrible for her daughter.

I feel kind of sick after reading that (great) Deadspin piece. It answered my questions, I guess, but I feel so sad about her downfall. She was so smart and amazing.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Obit from the Post. Multiple organ failure. Ugh. So young. RIP

Jennifer Frey, former writer for The Post's Sports and Style pages, dies at 47

She drank herself to death.

 

[Kayaugstin Kott]

The Deadspin piece is remarkably well-reported and -written. I look forward to going back and reading some of the hyperlinked stories that caught my eye (Mickey Mantle, Glenn Burke, Mark Kram, the last byline strangely enough about coupons).