E&P On Editorial Cartoonist Job Losses: Not As Bad Recently, Worse Historically?



This brief up at Editor & Publisher gives a couple of different figure on staffed editorial cartoonist positions than what one usually hears on the subject. They still have 80 or so people holding these jobs in a masthead somewhere -- as opposed to a figure down as low as 60 that was bandied about this summer. They also cite someone giving a 300-person figure for the mid 1980s, which I'm not sure I've ever heard before, either (I've heard various thins, as high as 160 but not higher that I can recall). I guess the main point is that an 18 percent job loss is still ahead of journalism in general, and that ain't exactly a healthy field right now.

Here's an interview with one of those former staffed-position cartoonists, Richard Crowson, who used to be with the Wichita Eagle until being let go in I think late summer/early Fall.
 
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