Sports Journalism + Comics = A Win for the New York Times

What do you get when you merge stellar storytelling skills, the suspense of a blockbuster film, the narrative quality of a gripping crime magazine piece and vivid illustrations? The New York Times‘ latest experiment with multimedia reporting — “Tomato Can Blues.”

Wednesday morning when my Twitter feed starting blowing up with accolades about the long multimedia piece, which chronicles how an amateur cage fighter pretended to be dead in order to escape his circumstances (owing lots of money to scary, Mafia-related drug dealers, etc.),

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