WASHINGTON, DC – Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from the Washington Post earlier this month, alleging her editorial independence was compromised when the newspaper killed her sketch critiquing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Republican President-elect Donald Trump.
Ann Telnaes resigned after the paper refused to publish her cartoon featuring a giant statue of President-elect Donald Trump towering above Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, who is kneeling.
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from the Washington Post after it refused to publish a cartoon satirizing its owner, Jeff Bezos.
We’ll start at Open Windows, the Ann Telnaes Substack. My colleagues in print Ann reproduces Jill Abramson’s Boston Globe report on The Washington Post and “the guardians of a free press” and it includes a gallery including Ann’s rejected cartoon and a handful of supporting cartoons.
The author is a law professor, political artist, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, member of the Board of Cartoonists’ Rights Network International, and LeO contributor.The opinions expressed here are his own.
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