[W]hen Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Sack decided to retire last year after four decades at [The Minneapolis Star Tribune], Opinion Editor Scott Gillespie decided to buck industry trends and announced he had an opinion position to fill: editorial cartoonist.
“I would see some job postings at our newspaper, and I would think, ‘That’s important, and I can understand why we’re filling them,’” Gillespie said. “But then I would ask myself if that person would drive more readership than an excellent cartoonist. And I would frequently think, ‘probably not.’”
Rob Tornoe, at Editor and Publisher, talks to The Minneapolis Star Tribune about editorial cartoons engaging readers with local issues and growing digital numbers, rather than the paper fearing controversy.
Ouch, this hurts when taken with the preceding article.