In case you missed these stories and interactives in the last few days:
- Bedrooms of the dead: Preserving the memories of slain loved ones [Florida Times-Union/jacksonville.com]
Reporter Jim Schoettler and photographer Jon M. Fletcher tell the stories of families of four Jacksonville murder victims who have chosen to remember their children by maintaining their bedrooms. Jon’s portraits of the rooms uses a technique I’m not sure I’ve seen in a newspaper before: the pictures from various perspectives have been pieced together to form a panoramic view. - To be continued: Real stories with StoryCorps [Florida Times-Union/jacksonville.com]
Columnist Mark Woods reflects on StoryCorps, a project which archives personal stories told by the interviewee not to a journalist but to a loved one such a spouse, a child, a friend. - Video of suspended Nassau County administrators now public, in sheriff’s hands [Florida Times-Union/jacksonville.com]
A video showing a Nassau County administrator stumbling naked on a balcony and some poolside partying at a South Florida hotel has thrust Sheriff Tommy Seagraves to the epicenter of the county’s notoriously contentious politics. Roughly 90 minutes of surveillance footage is now in the sheriff’s hands as he contemplates whether criminal charges are warranted against four top administrators. The county is investigating whether the four cheated taxpayers by skipping sessions they’d signed up for at a hurricane preparedness conference in May and billing the county $3,850 for lodging, food and vehicle mileage. - Homecoming for Herzog [St. Louis Post-Dispatch/stltoday.com]
Hall of Famer and former Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog had his number 24 retired at Busch Stadium Saturday before the Pirates game. Players from the 1985 season were there, including one of my favorite all-time players: Ozzie Smith. - Celebrity Mug Shots Trivia Quiz [stltoday.com]
This quiz shows blurry mug shots and asks you to guess who they are. If you follow Perez Hilton, Gawker, Huffington Post or The Smoking Gun, then you should be fine. I got 10 out of 10. - How long will the Blagojevich jury deliberate? [stltoday.com]
What a cool interactive graphic. This compares the length of the Blagojevich trial to other well-known jury trials. The chart allows you to compare how many days these trials lasted to how long (or short) the deliberation process was. There are so many layers to this graphic. Another home run by the stltoday.com staff.
Aw, shucks. We try.