Seven Days Explains It All
Seven Days, Vermont’s weekly alternative paper, is getting some negative feedback for its choices in rearranging their comics pages. As…
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Who’s Killing Your Local Newspaper?
Local newspapers are perfect prey for Vulture Funds. In the face of layoffs, the coronavirus, and private equity firms like…
Daryl Cagle Writes To His Congressman
Congressman Salud CarbajalDistrict OfficeSanta Barbara, CA Dear Congressman Carbajal, … I run a constituent small business in Montecito, Cagle Cartoons,…
COVID-19 Maybe, But Another Week Without Fitz?
As noted earlier Lee Enterprises had announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its…
Adam Zyglis Takes Furlough from Buffalo News
Earlier this year Lee Enterprises bought The Buffalo News and the BH Group. That purchase became final in mid-March 2020,…
News Flash: Advertisers Dash, Newspapers Slash
above: Rob Tornoe for Editor & Publisher Yesterday our friend Mike mentioned the state of the newspaper industry: The industry…
Diamondback Ceases Print Edition – Launched Kinney, Cho, McGruder Cartooning Careers
The student newspaper of University of Maryland, The Diamondback, has published its last print edition after 110 years. It will…
Cagle Cartoons Puts On a New Face
Cagle Cartoons has made some changes to its homepage and to functions at the site. Daryl Cagle uses up a…
David Fitzsimmons on The State of Cartooning
When I opened my annual “American Association of Editorial Cartoonists Notebook”, our trade journal, the bell tolled for my profession,…
Newspapers: Stars and Stripes Funding Threatened
In an effort to keep active duty frontline soldiers uninformed, the new Pentagon budget would cut all funding for the…
McClatchy Newspapers File Bankruptcy
Excerpts from a short item on Poynter: McClatchy, the second largest chain of local newspapers in the United States, filed…
Koterba, Plante, Zyglis Traded to Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises has bought the Berkshire Hathaway (BH Media Group) newspapers. After managing the BH newspapers for 18 months Lee…
The Newspaper Chronicles
Today Comic Strip of the Day had a take on The Candorville Chronicle. Which gives me an opening to pass…
Ken Fuson – RIP (off topic)
Newspaper reporter Ken Fuson has passed away. Ken Fuson, born June 23, 1956, died Jan. 3, 2020 at Nebraska Medical…
2020 Prizes/Awards Deadlines
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has published the deadlines and links to various Award and Prize opportunities for Editorial…