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Journal News Pulitzer Winner Latest Cartoonist Casualty
By Rob Tornoe | August 12th, 2009 | PERMALINK
Matt Davies, the long-time Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist for the Journal News, is the latest victim of cutbacks that have plagued parent corporation Gannett. Davies’ staff cartoonist position has been selected as one of 50 newsroom jobs eliminated at the Westchester newspaper.
“As of August 28th, the position of editorial cartoonist at The Journal News is defunct,” Davies announced on his Facebook page. “Tonight, I cry into my beer. It’s been an amazing 17 years, but tomorrow - onto much bigger, and far better things.”
Davies won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for his “piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style.” He also won the inaugural 2004 Herblock Prize and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Award, and is a former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
Recent years have taken a toll on the editorial cartoonist profession, with internet competition and an economic recession eating away at newspapers’ revenues. By many counts, less than 80 cartoonists remain on staff at newspapers across the country.
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Comment from Duane Barnhart
Time August 13, 2009 at 8:48 am
Sarah was right. There are “death panels” . Only for monumental cartoonists like Matt Davies.
Comment from chris
Time August 13, 2009 at 9:22 am
brilliant move,Gannett. Get rid of the one guy who actually brings eyeballs to the page
What morons
Comment from Jennifer
Time August 13, 2009 at 11:34 am
Jittadiah, Have you posted on the CL before, naming people that you thought would be dimissed? You really are a toad.
Comment from Steven Stark
Time August 13, 2009 at 3:44 pm
If I ever met Matt Davies, I don’t remember it; must have happened during my 7 years in the Gulag, I mean Gannett. But this is a pretty “cartoonish” move by Gannett. Still, anyone who works for Gannett 17 years, well, that’s amazing. Will he keep the Gannett implant?
Comment from Jittadiah
Time August 13, 2009 at 8:12 am
Marshall Ramsey of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger will be next.