In Oklahoma The Claremore Progress is reorganizing. Much of its “syndicated, non-local content” will be moved to their website leaving more room for local news and affairs in the print edition. The twice weekly print (daily online) newspaper informed their readers here (or here): The Claremore Progress will shift more syndicated, non-local content to its […]
After 19 years today marks the last print edition of Politico, it continues in the digital world. The hard copy of Politico was published twice weekly when Congress was in session, less frequently when Congress was in recess, and distributed to the offices of most of the elected people in Washington, D.C. John F. Harris […]
A couple recent hour long conversations featuring editorial cartoonists talking to each other. First up is a wonderful discussion between Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey about the history of editorial cartooning and the changes over their almost 50 years each in the profession. The dialogue is available at David Horsey’s Substack. Then we have […]
Illustrating the Progress of Art in Journalism (1897) It started a few days ago when Tony Rose uncovered a startling item in an old Editor and Publisher. A 1925 obituary for Albert Wilbur Steele includes a claim that he was “the first American cartoonist to draw a daily cartoon for a newspaper.” Steele, who had […]
The digital Salt Lake Tribune returns to hard copy editions, The Washington Post does away with reader critiques, the McClatchy group cripples its national news gathering abilities, and GANNETT NO MORE! The Salt Lake Tribune Returns to Print – kinda, sorta The Salt Lake Tribune returned to print last month with a localized offshoot — […]
Frew’s The Phantom reaches #2000, Walt Handelsman The Saints Caption Contest sets a record, a new Bob Staake book coming, news deserts and digitals – a report, Jason Chatfield on Substack as an alternative revenue stream, and The Kinks get a comic strip mention. The Phantom #2000 Missed it. Frew Publications in Australia earlier this […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has announced that they will not replace staff editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy. From Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Our longtime political cartoonist Jeff Darcy retired Sunday after a decades-long career in which he produced thousands of biting and funny cartoons, and I tell you that no one on this staff was […]
*A government action “that could never happen here.” We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the […]
In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]
Award winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman (Sigma Delta Chi, RFK Humanitarian, Thomas Nast, National Headliner, Scripps Howard, and on and on, including The Pulitzer when it meant something) and former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and a fly fisherman has been a political cartoonist for nearly 50 years. Jack has seen the […]
The August 31, 2025 issue of The New York Times For Kids will be the last print edition the paper announced. The supplement first appeared on May 14, 2017, eventually moving to the last Sunday of every month. From Vivian Ewing’s New York Times communiqué (or here): Beginning with that very first issue [or here], […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a part of Cox Enterprises, will no longer issue a print edition after this year. From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday said it plans to end its printed edition at the end of this year, accelerating its digital transformation amid a rapidly evolving media landscape. “We will begin the […]
Alden Global Capital Doesn’t Take No For An Answer Alden Global Capital just can’t understand. Why would any newspaper not want to be the next to pass through its digestive tract? As I wrote on Monday, the DallasNews Corporation recently agreed to be acquired by Hearst at the price of $14 a share. Soon after, […]
The 100 year Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between The Detroit Free Press (Freep) and The Detroit News, begun in 1989, will come to an end after 36 years with the close of 2025. From The Detroit Free Press (by former Gil Thorp writer Neal Rubin): The joint operating agreement that helped sustain two daily newspapers […]
Shefali Rekhi considers the problems facing cartoonists in Singapore and includes a brief history of cartooning and their colonial roots as seen in The Straits Times. And the international syndication of American comic strips are also a part of the discussion: Also brought to attention is the worldwide problem of digital media vis-a-vis editorial cartooning: […]