Buried at the end of this interview between John Seigenthaler of Aljazeera and Executive Editor of the New York Times Jill Abramson is an admission that if there was one thing that was missing from the New York Times is that there are no cartoons. Here’s the pertinent snippet: What do you think is missing […]
Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. […]
Yesterday, the National Cartoonists Society President Tom Richmond entered the fray over The New York Times’ invitation and submission policy for original editorial cartoons. No surprise that Tom takes a position against the spec work request. The Times is arguably the most well-known and prestigious newspaper in the United States. It should be championing and […]
Jim Romenesko has the details on a small WTF by editorial cartoonists after the The New York Times offered to run an original editorial cartoon in the Sunday The Week in Review starting February 26. At issue is the Times’ offer to pay $250 to the selected cartoonist, but requires all entrants to submit original, […]
Not a scientific poll by any stretch of the imagination, but when The Public Editor asked for reader’s impressions of the new Week in Review format, 15 of the 24 comments mentioned in some way that they wish the editorial cartoons hadn’t been removed. Here’s a representative quote from Vince Parry of Brooklyn, NY: I’m […]
As announced last week, Brian McFadden was tapped to be the featured regular cartoonist for the rework of the New York Times’ Week in Review. His first comic was entitled “The State of Unemployment” and appeared yesterday. Michael Cavna interviewed Brian about the new arrangement: “I’ve been given a lot of leeway,” says McFadden, whose […]
Big Fat Whale creator Brian McFadden will be the commissioned cartoonist in the New York Times’ Week in Review section starting Sunday. According to Matt Bors Brian will the featured cartoonist for “a few months” and before the space is rotated to other cartoonists. “The strip will cover something topical, but it can be anything […]
The New York Times has sent an email to earlier contributors to their Week in Review section that they will no longer be publishing editorial cartoons and instead run its “own cartoon feature” similar to that of a longer form comic strip or graphic novel. The revamped Week in Review section is slated to debut […]
Business insider reports that The New York Times pay-wall strategy is not only generating online revenue, but that they’re seeing an uptick in print subscriptions as well as the choice of ‘free’ is no longer an option. Even people who love their newsprint had to give serious thought to why they were blowing $600 for […]
Later this month the New York Times will implement the long anticipated subscription pay-wall. In a column by Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. the six access scenarios were listed out. They are: On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we […]