Two award-winning cartoonists recently sat down with each other to share advice for aspiring editorial cartoonists. Marshall Ramsey, who teaches an editorial cartooning course at the University of Mississippi, invited Scott Stantis to speak about his experience as an editorial cartoonist. Scott Stantis has worked with …
Editorial cartoonists have experienced a steady decline in the job market, but digital media allows these professionals to keep their work alive. “There is a market out there, but you probably aren’t going to be hired by a newspaper to do cartoons,” says Marshall Ramsey, …
A recent study of Arizona’s two largest newspapers found that the immigration news coverage was “generally unfavorable” to immigrants. Francesco Somaini, an assistant professor of journalism in the Department of Communication at Central Washington University, conducted the study after analyzing news stories of The Arizona Republic …
Other than providing news, newspapers also have segmented opinion sections such as editorials, opinion columns, op-eds and letters to the editor. Members of the editorial board of a newspaper usually write editorials; as a result, no single journalist attaches his or her name to the …
