Here’s news of a couple of shake up items coming from Detroit. The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News will stop publishing a joint weekend edition. Additionally the News will be offering volunary buyouts for 20 of its employees. The News employs Henry Payne and Larry Wright as editorial cartoonist. Both papers will publish […]
From Daryl Cagle’s “blog” (scroll down to 2nd story in Feb 18th posting):A knowledgeable source tells me that the Village Voice, the New York alternative tabloid with a great tradition of editorial cartoonists going back for decades – including Jules Feiffer and Ed Sorel – will stop running editorial cartoons, and any future cartoons will […]
Daily Illini editor Acton Gorton was relieved of his duties after printing one of the Danish Mohammad cartoons in his column. There is a good reporting of the events leading to and the aftermath of the printing on a Chicago Tribune blog. He said in discussions with students he had come to believe that there […]
Clay Bennett’s “Letter from the President” has been posted to the AAEC website. He talks about the wild ride the last four months have been with the number of editorial cartoonists that have lost their jobs, the Mohammad cartoon, and the newspaper industry.No doubt, newspapers are feeling the heat from the competition. If only the […]
Clay Bennett, the current AAEC president, has come out criticizing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for firing of Tim Menees who has been at that paper for 30 years.“I understand that the Post-Gazette had two cartoonists,” said Bennett, referring to the duo of Menees and Rob Rogers. “But that looks like a strength to me — a […]
Here’s good news for the newspaper industry: Newspaper Web Sites Continue to Gain ReadersMore people are going to newspaper Web sites and in November the overall number of visitors to newspaper.coms hit an all-time high, according to numbers released by ratings firm Nielsen//NetRatings and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The report shows that more […]
The first editorial cartoonist to lose his/her job in 2006 for budgetary reasons is Tim Menees who has worked for that paper for 30 years.In a cost-cutting move, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this week laid off several non-union workers, including longtime cartoonist Tim Menees and Washington, D.C., bureau chief Michael McGough. … Although both Menees and […]
In a passing story in the Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) (free registration required), they report that they have picked up “Brevity“ and the Sudoku number puzzle. If laughter is the best medicine and brainteasers really keep your mind nimble, The Press-Enterprise is happy to oblige. Starting today, we will be featuring two new puzzles to keep […]
From the San Jose Mercury News comes news that Knight Ridder has concluded a round of talks with potential buyers.Knight Ridder on Thursday concluded two days of meetings with a trio of private equity firms interested in buying the San Jose newspaper company, which put itself up for sale at the urging of three major […]
Staff cuts in several newspapers belonging to the Hollinger International company should be expected this year. Newspaper publisher Hollinger International Inc. on Thursday said it plans to reorganize its Sun-Times News Group by splitting it into two groups and cutting staff by 300, or about 10 percent, to reverse its disappointing 2005 financial performance. Hollinger […]
In the last couple o’ days there have been some newspaper industry news (Knight Ridder may go on another cutting spree; New York Times Company earnings down 40% last quarter; Wall Street thinks news print businesss is dead) and when newspapers need to cut expenses an editorial cartoonist is shown the door.I’ve always wondered how […]
On canadiancartoonists.com, they’ve posted an article about editorial cartoonist Vance Rodewalt of The Calgary Herald. It’s a rather long piece, but delves into Vance’s history of how he became a cartoonist, the vanishing number of editorial cartoonists and how political correctness is affecting editorial cartooning.The rise of political correctness, which, says Rodewalt, “kind of snuck […]
Last Friday was the last editorial cartoon published by Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) at the Baltimore Sun. KAL has spent 17 years with the Sun. We learned early December that KAL had decided to take a buyout offered to over 70 employees after discussing his future job security with the paper.The cartoonist said last week that […]
Along with the departure of KAL from the Baltimore Sun, the Sun has written a fairly long article (free registration required) on the demise of the number of editorial cartoonists in America.There are a couple of good quotes from Chip Bok of The Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio:“In the long run, they’re going to regret […]
With the shake up at the Kansas City Star, a few features have been dropped. One of the features being dropped is “Spot the Frog” by Mark Heath. On his blog he says, Having the Spot sunday in The Star was a pleasure. They were printed with fidelity — not a given when it comes […]