Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Put up, stated on Friday night that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions part rejected a cartoon depicting The Put up’s proprietor, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting towards a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
In a short assertion posted to Substack, Ms. Telnaes — who has labored at The Put up since 2008 — referred to as the newspaper’s determination to kill her cartoon a “recreation changer” that was “harmful for a free press.”
“In all that point I’ve by no means had a cartoon killed due to who or what I selected to purpose my pen at,” she wrote. “Till now.”
Ms. Telnaes included a draft of her cartoon in her Substack publish. Along with Mr. Bezos, the founding father of Amazon, the cartoon depicted Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; Patrick Quickly-Shiong, the proprietor of The Los Angeles Instances; and Mickey Mouse, the company mascot of the Walt Disney Firm.
David Shipley, The Put up’s opinions editor, stated in a press release that he revered Ms. Telnaes and all she had given to The Put up “however should disagree along with her interpretation of occasions.”
“Not each editorial judgment is a mirrored image of a malign pressure,” Mr. Shipley stated within the assertion. “My determination was guided by the truth that we had simply printed a column on the identical matter because the cartoon and had already scheduled one other column — this one a satire — for publication. The one bias was in opposition to repetition.”
Mr. Shipley added that he had spoken with Ms. Telnaes by cellphone on Friday and had requested her to rethink resigning. In the course of the name, Mr. Shipley stated he wished to talk with Ms. Telnaes on Monday, after they’d taken the weekend to assume issues over. He later inspired her to carry off on quitting to see if they may work out the state of affairs in accordance along with her rules.
Ms. Telnaes didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Matt Wuerker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for Politico, referred to as the choice to kill Ms. Telnaes’s cartoon “spineless,” including that the storied Put up cartoonist Herbert Block, often called Herblock, and Ben Bradlee, a former editor of The Put up, had been “spinning, kicking and screaming of their graves.”
