I believe in the power of stories to make people’s lives better. I’ve been a reporter and editor for more than 30 years, with a passion for narrative and investigative reporting. Since December 2005, I’ve been an editor and reporter at the Star Tribune, Minnesota’s largest daily newspaper. Before coming to Minnesota, I spent 12 years as a reporter and editor at The News & Observer in North Carolina. You can contact me at james.shiffer [at] gmail.com or @jameselishiffer.
I helped narrate this 2021 TPT public television documentary that drew from my book, “The King of Skid Row”
Podcast, coverage and gallery from Minnesota Public Radio interview, May 2016.
Streets.mn podcast with Bill Lindeke, November 2016.
Harvard’s Nieman blog on how I did the Janet Lee Dahl story
About Whistleblower:
What works: the Star Tribune’s Whistleblower, David Brauer, Minnpost, March 19, 2009
Neighborhood Watch, Mary Lynn F. Jones, Presstime, March 2009
Resolution: To spend more time digging, Nancy Barnes, Star Tribune, January 3, 2009
About Rubbed Out:
Star Tribune’s Whistleblower digs into muckraker’s murder 65 years later, David Brauer, Minnpost, March 8, 2010
Who rubbed out Arthur Kasherman? Noir, the Star Tribune and a senior thesis combine for multimedia storytelling, Andrea Pitzer, Nieman Storyboard, March 12, 2010
Other mentions:
Discovering Family, John Carlin, Prologue: Journal of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1996