Clay Jones takes 3rd in 86th National Headliner Awards winners

Localish cartoonist Clay Jones (he keeps bouncing up and down I95 between DC and Fredericksburg) took 3rd place in an editorial cartoon award.

86th National Headliner Awards winners

The 86th National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United

States in 2019 were announced today. The awards were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of
Atlantic City. The annual contest is one of the oldest and largest in the country that recognizes

journalistic merit in the communications industry.

Editorial cartoons

First Place
Michael Ramirez
Las Vegas Review Journal
Judges' comments: Sharp, sophisticated, daring. Michael Ramirez skewers the pompous and
defends the vulnerable. Excellent work.

Second Place
Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Third Place
Clay Jones
CNN/Claytoonz