Rose Friedman, an NPR editor and reporter who shaped the public radio network’s arts & culture coverage and co-created its popular reading guide Books We Love, died of cancer Thursday, September 17, at her home in New York City. She was 38.
Her death was announced on-air by NPR’s Elizabeth Blair, who called Friedman one of the outlet’s finest journalists.
In an obituary and tribute posted on NPR’s website, Blair said, “Rose Friedman was an editor to the end. She said she wanted the second line of her obituary to acknowledge her role as a shop steward for
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