Michael de Adder Let Go by Postmedia

 Via Daily Cartoonist:

"Earlier today Michael de Adder let us know via X/Twitter that the remnants of Atlantic Canada’s Saltwire network would no longer be using his editorial cartoons:

"'I just got let go from the Halifax Chronicle Herald after almost 30 years.'

"Michael explains that he isn’t sure his last cartoon for them will be published:

"'I sent this in and got the call. My last cartoon [below], I think, in the Chronicle Herald. It’s not published yet.'

">update edit: the cartoon was published<

"This has all happened just days after the Association of Canadian Cartoonists’ convention. Was it timed so?

"The Halifax Chronicle-Herald was part of the Saltwire Network. Saltwire applied for bankruptcy protection earlier this year and then major parts of the group was bought by Postmedia a month ago. Postmedia is Canada’s largest newspaper publisher but is majority owned by the U.S. hedge fund Chatham Asset Management. Chatham is also the majority owner of US-based McClatchy newspapers which last year fired their three staff editorial cartoonists and has given up on political cartoons on their papers’ opinion pages.

"Michael de Adder, who less than two months ago won a Silver Reuben for Editorial Cartoons from the National Cartoonists Society and has won Canada”s National Newspaper Award multiple times, began 2024 by losing his freelance gig with The Washington Post and is ending 2024 by being left out of The Chronicle-Herald.

"As far as we know Michael still has the occasional Toronto Star and Hill Times sales, but The Post and The Chronicle were his major sources of income. Michael’s Deep State Substack is an alternative revenue stream.

"The status of Saltwire’s staff editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon is unknown at this time.

"This is a developing story."