Yale Daily News 6/1/12: Keegan's '12 story spreads. As news of Marina Keegan’s ’12 death last Saturday spread through the Yale community and digital media this week, Keegan’s friends, family and others who read her writing were working to share her story and honor her memory. Although Keegan’s memorial is scheduled for Saturday, the impact of her death has already prompted much action to commemorate her life. Keegan’s parents, Kevin and Tracy, said they are establishing a memorial fund to sponsor a Yale College prize for “excellence in playwriting,” while David Corson-Knowles ’03, who did not know Keegan personally but read her work on the News’ website, created a fund that aims to endow a staff position within the University to help students pursue careers beyond finance and consulting. And Keegan’s writings — particularly her final column, “The Opposite of Loneliness” — have gained attention worldwide as the story of her death spread through national media outlets and online social media.

WHDH 6/2/12: Family, friends say final farewell to Yale grad killed in crash. Friends and family said a final farewell Saturday to a recent Yale graduate killed in a crash on the Cape. Just days before her death, Marina Keegan posted writings online that have gone viral — giving her a sort of life after death. A talented writer and a woman with endless potential, Keegan was supposed to be moving into an apartment in Brooklyn Saturday to start her first job since college: writing for the New Yorker. Instead, her friends and family were gathered in her home town of Wayland to say goodbye.

Metrowest Daily News 6/3/12: Friends and family remember Wayland's Marina Keegan. Memories of Marina Keegan’s “wild abandon,” fierce devotion to friends and extraordinary talent as a writer left a huge crowd of mourners giggling through their tears yesterday. Five hundred people filled the First Parish of Wayland to celebrate the young Yale graduate’s life, tragically cut short in a May 26 car crash on Cape Cod.

Wayland Patch 6/2/12: Keegan Focused on The ‘Am,’ Not the ‘Will Be’. The rain fell with varying degrees of intensity Saturday on the crowds of people gathered in the side yard and behind First Parish Wayland for a celebration of life service in memory of Marina Keegan. Their patience, their desire to be a part of Saturday memorial served as a visual testament to the impact Keegan had during her short 22 years. Fifteen minutes before the 2 p.m. service, the doors of First Parish were closed as the building had reached capacity. But still people came and as they were turned away, began to look for another opportunity to take part. They found that opportunity clustered around an open window to the side of First Parish, where they could hear, but not see, the service.

Wall Street Journal 6/1/12: Marina Keegan's Posthumous FringeNYC Musical 'The Independents' Deals with Drug Smuggling and Tall Ships. Marina Keegan’s play, “The Independents,” follows nine friends who live and work on a Revolutionary War-era tall ship. They pretend to be historical re-enactors as a cover for their actual job, smuggling marijuana from Nova Scotia to Gloucester. But when their captain disappears, they must mortgage the ship and take up historical reenacting for real, learning as they go. “It has a folk rock quality and some ballads, musical theater numbers and uses some sea-faring songs as well,” said Elena Holy, the Producing Artistic Director of the New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, which is featuring performances of “The Independents.”

CBS New York 6/2/12: Yale University Team Still Hopes To Bring Show To New York International Fringe Festival After Writer Marina Keegan Death. The show most go on, even after a tragedy. That’s the case for a team from Yale University, WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau reported. Services will be held today for 22-year-old Marina Keegan. She was killed in a car crash near her Wayland, Massachusetts home on May 26. Keegan had just graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and was set to start her job at the New Yorker this month. At Yale, she had written and helped stage a folk rock musical called “Independents” and the remaining members of the creative team are trying to get it staged at the New York International Fringe Festival. Note: the link in this article to their Kickstarter campaign is incorrect. The correct link is: here.

ABC News 6/1/12: Graduate's Tragic Story Moves Millions Online. Marina Keegan was ABC World News with Diane Sawyer's "Person of the Week".

ABC News 6/1/12: Marina Keegan: Yale Writer Who Died in Car Crash Leaves Legacy of Idealism, Power of the Pen. Kevin Keegan and his wife, Tracy Keegan, were preparing to celebrate his 55th birthday and eagerly awaiting the homecoming of their daughter Marina and a college boyfriend they hoped to get to know better, just days after the two graduated from Yale University. But instead a state trooper arrived at the Keegan's door to deliver devastating news: There had been a car crash and Marina Keegan, who had a promising position as an editorial assistant at The New Yorker magazine ahead of her, was dead.

WBUR 6/1/12: Wayland To Remember Yale Grad. Saturday afternoon in Wayland, family and friends of Marina Keegan will gather for her funeral. The 22-year-old recent graduate of Yale University died last Saturday in a car accident on Route 6 on Cape Cod. Five days earlier, she had been on top of the world — an Ivy League degree in hand, magna cum laude. Keegan was a gifted writer, actress and campus activist, and she had been preparing to move to New York City for a job at the New Yorker magazine.