Echoes from Ann Telnaes walking away from The Washington Post continue to resonate. While Ann is the starting point the discussion has evolved into a broader discussion about editorial cartoons and the newspaper industry.

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.”

David Maraniss, who has spent nearly five decades at the Washington Post, took to social media and bemoaned the fact that his employer “has utterly lost its soul.”

The journalist will oversee coverage of national politics, the federal government, national security, the judiciary, immigration, race, health and science

Recently Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said she resigned from her job at The Washington Post after the newspaper rejected a cartoon critical of its owner, Jeff Bezos.

“The smells, sounds, what’s happening around me. I definitely use my five senses when out and about. I love listening to everything around me. I feel like I am one with my environment.” It ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon depicting wealthy businessmen and leading media figures, including Jeff Bezos,

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon depicting wealthy businessmen and leading media figures, including Jeff Bezos,