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Who rubbed out Arthur Kasherman? Noir, the Star Tribune and a senior thesis combine for multimedia storytelling

March 12, 2010 – 3:15 pm

A little shy of midnight on a January night in 1945, someone shot Minneapolis muckraker Arthur Kasherman as he sat with a friend in his Oldsmobile. Firing several more times, the gunman pursued Kasherman as he climbed out of the car. Kasherman died at the scene, and the killer—whose name he seemed to have known—was [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in interactive graphics, interviews, multimedia, print narratives | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles on telling good stories and asking big questions

January 25, 2010 – 11:09 am

T.J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, won a National Book Award in November for his second biography, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. In an hour-long interview with Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) books editor Laurie Hertzel, he talked about the difference between research and investigation, building [...]

By Laurie Hertzel | Posted in interviews, print narratives | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)