4 posts tagged ‘Newspapers’
Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from The Washington Post when her cartoon criticizing Bezos is killed
Boing Boing,
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced that she has quit her position at The Washington Post because her editor killed her cartoon criticizing tech and media billionaires, including Post owner Jeff Bezos. The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed. — Read the rest The post Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from The Washington Post when her cartoon criticizing Bezos is killed appeared first on Boing Boing.
Oregon newspaper lays off staff and ends print edition after embezzler drains funds
An embezzler at Eugene Weekly has ended the newspaper's 40-year print run and forced it to lay off the entire staff, reports the Associated Press. Editor Camilla Mortensen says that days before Christmas they became aware of $100k in unpaid bills and a similar amount paid instead to the employee. — Read the rest The post Oregon newspaper lays off staff and ends print edition after embezzler drains funds appeared first on Boing Boing.
All the Newspapers’ Men
The New Yorker,
In Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power” and Adam Nagourney’s “The Times,” two well-known journalists turn their investigative power on their institutions—and themselves.
Journalistic Independence Isn’t a Human-Resources Exercise
A free and independent press is vital to preserve, but doing so requires the people running media companies to take that idea out of mothballs.