Cathy Wilcox Leaving The Sydney Morning Herald
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James Madden at The Australian is reporting (or here) that Cathy Wilcox has given notice to The Sydney Morning Herald that she will be leaving her position as editorial cartoonist at the company.
Cartoonist Cathy Wilcox is leaving The Sydney Morning Herald, after a career spanning more than three decades.
It is understood Wilcox, 63, applied for a voluntary redundancy in recent weeks after Nine’s publishing division announced a newsroom restructure. Her application for redundancy was accepted, and she will leave the masthead as early as this week.
Over the course of her 37-year cartooning career, Wilcox won four Walkley Awards.
It is understood about 30 staff have been made redundant at Nine Newspapers in the restructure.
Wilcox sparked a firestorm in January when she drew a cartoon suggesting those pushing for a royal commission into rising antisemitism following the December 14 terrorist attack at Bondi Beach were indoctrinated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, News Corp chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch, senior members of the legal profession, and various Coalition figures.
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Nine Entertainment, which owns the SMH and The Age – both of which ran the offending cartoon – refused to comment for four days following publication of the cartoon before the mastheads eventually ran an editorial headlined: ‘Wilcox cartoon was divisive – and we apologise for the hurt it has caused’.
It was reported that Wilcox was unhappy with the newspaper’s weak defense of her cartoon.
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