Ann Telnaes, Who Resigned From The Washington Post After Trump Cartoon Was Rejected, Wins Pulitzer Prize

 

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Via Daily Cartoonist:

 

Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary (link includes Ann’s submission portfolio).

The Washington Post proudly claims partial credit for Ann Telnaes 2025 Pulitzer. Or here.

Ann Telnaes, until recently a political cartoonist for The Post’s Opinions page, was awarded the prize for illustrated reporting and commentary. It was her second win in the category, which was labeled “editorial cartooning” when she was first honored in 2001 while working for Tribune Media Services.

While Telnaes was technically honored for her work in the 2024 calendar year, the prize committee citation also alluded to her unpublished January cartoon, hailing her for “delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity — and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.”

 

Via Comics Reporter:

The Pulitzer is annually awarded annually to a cartoonist, and this year’s winner was Ann Telnaes, the storied editorial cartoonist who made headlines earlier this year when she quit the Washington post when a cartoon criticizing owner Jeff Bezos was squashed. Telnaes was saluted by the prize committee for “delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.”