Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post that it was the first time the Post had rejected a drawing because of whom it targeted.
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quits The Washington Post after her Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos and Mickey Mouse cartoon is rejected.
The Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, said in a statement that he disagreed with “her interpretation of events” and that his decision was “guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”
News of the anticipated layoffs came on the heels of Friday’s resignation from the Washington Post by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes.
Cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes left the Washington Post amid a dispute over a drawing critical of the newspaper's owner Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos Cartoon Meaning. Telnaes' cartoon, which she included in her post, depicts Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, as well as Facebook and Meta founder Mar
I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at,” cartoonist Ann Telnaes said.
Both current and former Washington Post staffers are expressing dismay at the paper's ongoing turmoil from financial woes to an ideological battle unfolding in the newsroom.
The Washington Post’s media critic bashed his own paper for failing to cover the internal turmoil plaguing the Jeff Bezos-owned publication ... which led Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes to resign. “The Post has a long history of warts-and-all ...
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a cartoon satirical of its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos."
Ann Telnaes is my new hero ... spiked one of her cartoons — a piece depicting the publication’s owner Jeff Bezos as a Trump supplicant among other billionaires such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...