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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Editorial Cartoons: Berryman Award Winner Jen Sorensen

Editorial Cartoons: Berryman Award Winner Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen accepts the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons at the National Press Foundation awards dinner in Washington, D.C. February 15, 2024. Her four-panel approach has criticized how society worships wealthy people with "big" ideas, satirized the doubling of "frontover" deaths as vehicle height increases, and explored the evolution of Twitter, from the early years of random thoughts to a take on what "X" has become. Sorensen's weekly cartoon appears in alternative newspapers across the country, including Seven Days (Vermont), The Austin Chronicle, C-VILLE Weekly (Virginia), Boulder Weekly, Illinois Times and Tucson Weekly. Over the past year, her work was published in The Nation, Politico, In These Times, and a variety of digital media outlets including Daily Kos and The Nib. "Who can take on the entire tech industry in four panels? And yet it echoes all the way through," National Press Foundation judges said. The judging panel noted the high quality of candidates from across the country. They were impressed with Sorensen's "unique" skill in taking on a "galaxy of issues." "[Her] cartoons aren't just reacting to one thing that happened in the news, she looks at bigger trends." The Berryman Award, established in 1989, is given annually in memory of a father and son who were both Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists and represent the highest standards of illustration and journalism. Berryman Award: https://nationalpress.org/awards/clif... NPF is solely responsible for the content. This video was produced within the Evelyn Y. Davis studios.

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