Brian Anderson: a gentleman journalist

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Brian Anderson: a gentleman journalist

Article by: LORI STRUDEVANT , Star Tribune
Updated: March 16, 2010 - 6:35 PM

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Few journalists in the Twin Cities were as durable, or as well liked, as Brian Anderson, the Mpls/St.Paul Magazine editor who died Tuesday of leukemia. His tenure and popularity both trace to the same thing: Anderson was a true gentleman. His warm and gracious personality infused his magazine, securing its loyal following through rough years in the print journalism business.

Anderson left the old Minneapolis Tribune a few years before I arrived in the mid-1970s. But his many friends on the Trib staff spoke so often and highly of him that I came to think of him as a colleague, too. During a short-lived but scary newspaper strike in 1980, he reached out to young, financially nervous Trib staffers like me, offering free-lance assignments. Those paychecks came after the strike had ended. But that didn't make them less welcome, nor Anderson's kindness less appreciated.

Anderson's work contributed much to these Twin Cities' sense of themselves as a place of cultural and economic importance in the national and global scene. That's a legacy to which every journalist can aspire.

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