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An enormous marble structure engraved with the text of the First Amendment used to decorate the facade of the Newseum…
McClatchy Group Consolidates Comics – Updated
On March 1 we noted that the McClatchy group of newspapers had standardized their daily comics pages (see below). Today,…
Mallard Fillmore Doesn’t Meet Gannett Standards
Gannett responded to The Washington Times article about Gannett cancelling Mallard Fillmore. Amalie Nash, senior vice president of local news…
Entire Gannett Group Drops Mallard Fillmore
Cartoonist Bruce Tinsley is saying that the Gannett Group of newspapers has dropped his Mallard Fillmore comic strip en masse….
How Comics and Cartoons Work in Newspapers
A couple newspaper editors broke down the processes of how comic strips and editorial cartoons appear in your local gazette….
Incitement to Riot 1898 – Cartoonist Chronicles
Racist Cartoons Help Incite an 1898 North Carolina Massacre>> Warning: historically racist caricature and content << When a mob bent…
Longest Running Comic Character at 120 Years
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has regularly featured the Weatherbird on its front page since 1901. Since February 11, 1901…
Editor and Publisher Archives 1901 – 2015
Editor & Publisher’s roots began in 1884 when The Journalist was first published to serve the U.S. newspaper industry. The…
Wrapping Up the Old with a Year-End Roundup
Some miscellaneous items from the recent past. On this day 25 years ago, Bill Watterson’s iconic comic strip Calvin and…
A Cartooning Menagerie
Small Newspapers and Freelance Cartoonists Small Market Sports © Bill Charbonneau Darren Johnson on getting cartoons for small newspapers: Still,…
Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune Go Weekly
The two big Utah newspapers, while remaining digital dailies, will transform their print editions into weekly papers. Poynter on the…
Gannett Sending Out Buyout Notices Monday
Rick Edmunds at Poynter is reporting: Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper company with more than 250 daily titles, will begin…
National Newspaper Week October 4-10, 2020
above: Seth Boyes, Dickinson County News From NationalNewspaperWeek.com: This year’s observance will be held Oct. 4-10. This 80th annual National…
Daily Newspapers in Wyoming a Thing of the Past
By the end of August 2020 Wyoming will become the only (first?) state in the U.S. to publish no daily…