Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has been awarded the 2009 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning for a wide-ranging series of drawings that poked fun at politicians, journalists and public perceptions.
The award carries a $2,500 prize and a crystal trophy. The award will be presented at the 27th annual National Press Foundation Awards Dinner, February 16th, 2010, at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
The judges also awarded Honorary Mentions to Matt Wuerker of Politico and Ann Telnaes of washingtonpost.com for the "innovative use of animation in their work, which is expected to be the wave of the future."
Awards
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Awards: Steve Breen's Very Good Year
San
Diego cartoonist Steve Breen wins second Pulitzer, other awards
Steve Breen, the editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. It was only the second time his newspaper has been awarded journalism's highest honor and the second for Breen himself; he won while at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey in 1998.
In awarding the prize, judges noted Breen's “agile use of a classic style to produce wide ranging cartoons that engage readers with power, clarity and humor.”
Breen got the news of his second Pulitzer in a manner made for one of his cartoons. He was looking under a hotel room couch in Hawaii for his daughter's sandals as the family was preparing to head home after a week-long vacation.
In a phone interview, he said: “I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.”
Editorial page editor Bob Kittle called Breen on his cell phone with the news after Robert York, senior editor/visuals, walked into the editorial board's Monday morning meeting and told everyone.
Kittle said Breen thought he was joking and “was very humble about it.”
Outgoing publisher David Copley, who recently sold the newspaper, congratulated Breen via speaker phone, Kittle said.
“His great gift is to target someone but not be mean-spirited about it,” Kittle added. “This happens with Steve a lot. The people whom he targets in a cartoon, whom he criticizes, they call him asking for the original.”
His interest in foreign affairs fueled his career.
“I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news,” Breen said. “When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.”
Breen was born in Los Angeles in 1970 and grew up in Orange County, the second-oldest of eight children. He was about to become a high school history teacher when the Asbury Park Press offered him a job in the art department in July 1994. He became the full-time editorial cartoonist there in 1996 and won the Pulitzer prize two years later. He joined the Union-Tribune in 2001.
Also nominated as finalists in the Editorial Cartooning category were: Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press for his “compelling collection of print and animated cartoons that blend the great traditions of the craft with new online possibilities”; and Matt Wuerker of Politico for his “engaging mix of art and ideas, resulting in cleverly conceived cartoons that persuade rather than rant and that sometimes use animation to widen their impact.”
This was Thompson's third time as a finalist, and the first for Wuerker.
Thomas Nast Award
Two days after learning he had won the Pulitzer, Breen was honored with the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award for the best cartoons on international affairs.
The judges noted Steve's “strong graphics, subtle messages and a sense of fun are in the DNA of Breen's cartoons, but ... he also delivers directness and a clear point of view. His work is simple, but superb.”
Kevin Kallaugher, cartoonist for The Economist, received a citation in the category.
National Headliner Award
Finally, Steve Breen was the winner of this year's National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartooning, presented by the Press Club of Atlantic City. Don Asmussen, of the San Francisco Chronicle, took Second place and Clay Bennett, of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, took Third.
—Sources: Union-Tribune, Daily Cartoonist. JP Trostle contributed,
Awards: More Winners
Chris
Britt, who draws for the State Journal-Register in Illinois, nabbed this
year's SDX, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence, given by the Society
of Professional Journalists. The awards will be presented during the SPJ
Convention and National Journalism Conference, August 27-30 in Indianapolis.
The Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism has named its 2009 winners, and among the distinguished journalists is Ed Stein, former staff cartoonist at the now defunct Rocky Mountain News.
Stein's work was recognized for “its graphic sophistication covering the economy, torture and other crucial issues.”
The Aronson Awards have been presented since 1990 to journalists who measure business, government and social affairs against clear ideals of the common good. The awards are named in honor of James Aronson, the distinguished Hunter College professor of journalism who was editor from 1949 to 1967 of the crusading newsweekly The National Guardian.
Canadian cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon, of the Chronicle Herald, was awarded the 2009 Atlantic Journalism Award.
Michael Ramirez, of Investor's Business Daily, was the winner of this year's NCS division award for editorial cartooning.
In May, Kevin Kallaugher posted the following online: “Our cartoonist friend Dave Horsey deserves some hardy congratulations for winning a top award ... IN COLUMN WRITING.
“Here's the announcement from the Best of the West journalism competition: 'Special Topic Column Writing, First Place: David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Judges' remarks: 'Although better known for his editorial cartoons, these columns by Horsey from the 2008 campaign trail demonstrate that the author has as much a knack for words as for images. He brought real people and their issues to life in smart, descriptive prose. The columns all drip with palpable sense of place and a keen sense of the characters who inhabit those places.'”
Finally, as noted over on the Daily Cartoonist, our old friend David Astor came in Second Place in the New Jersey Press Association for the humor column he writes for The Montclair Times. Way to go, Dave!
Awards: Fischetti to Judge
By Alan Gardner
Lee Judge,
editorial cartoonist for the Kansas City Star, is this year's winner of
the John Fischetti award for excellence in editorial cartooning. The winning
cartoon shows a soldier's helmet perched on a rifle with the caption
“Price of Gas.” This is the second such win by Lee. He won the very first
Fischetti award back in 1982.
“The timing is wonderful,” Lee says. “My job has recently become part-time and to win a prestigious, national award like this gives encouragement not only to me, but to the people who fought to keep my cartoons in the paper. Editorial cartooning is struggling to survive, not because it lacks popularity, but because it's often not deemed absolutely crucial. I strongly disagree. If we're in a battle for readers, why get rid of the one person on a staff best equipped to compete with television and internet?”
Mike Luckovich and Michael Ramirez were named as honorable mentions.
