Another Cartoonist Loses Staff Position



This time it's Bill Day of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. According to that article, the firing came at a bad time -- I can't imagine there's a good time to lose a position like that, but Day's alarm is palpable. It looks like this group of C-A employees may have until March 27 to fully leave their positions.

Day has been at the Commercial Appeal since 1998. It's his second stint with the newspaper. He won the SPJ's Green Eyeshade award in 2000-2001, 2005 and 2006. He has won five Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the NCS division award for Editorial cartoons, and was a Fischetti Award winner. Moving into cartoons from newspaper illustration, Day has also done long stints at the Philadelphia Bulletin and Detroit Free Press. Like many others in his profession to recently lose their positions, Day is a well-regarded, vital member of his professional fraternity for whom any interruption in vocational service would have been unthinkable even five years ago.
 
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