Matt Davies Let Go From Journal-News



Just five years off of an awards season where he took home both the Pulitzer Prize and the first Herblock Prize, Matt Davies has become a casualty of job eliminations at newspaper giant Gannett. He worked for the Journal News in Westchester, New York, and has held that position since 1993. Davies apparently made the announcement via his Facebook page. He will leave his job on August 28. He has been distributed by Tribune Media Services; it's unclear whether or not he'll continue to do cartoons for syndication in the immediate future.

Darryl Cagle's blog posting also notes that Davies won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Award and he's a past president of the longtime editorial cartooning advocacy group the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

That a very recent Pulitzer winner can be eliminated without much if anything in the way of shock, outrage or dismay shows both the general state of newspaper decline and the specific toll it has taken on the editorial cartooning vocation. I believe there were just over 20 positions lost in 2008, and it seems to me the number of staffed positions has to be somewhere in the middle double-digits rather than the high double-digits as it's often still claimed.
 
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