A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist said she quit The Washington Post after her Jeff Bezos cartoon was killed

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes, a well-known fixture at The Washington Post, has revealed that she will be stepping down from her post.
The Post reported that a cartoon mocking its owner, Jeff Bezos, was turned down, and following that, they made the decision to remove the cartoons.
He, the Post's opinion editor, said he did not agree "with her interpretation of events."

Ann Telnaes, a well-known editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post since 2008, has resigned after one of her cartoons was rejected.

A cartoon on display showed Amazon founder and The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, along with other billionaires, bowing down before a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.

Cartoonist Telnaes stated that the inspiration behind the cartoon was to mock the actions of billionaire businessmen in the tech and media industries who have attempted to ingratiate themselves with Trump.

Alongside Bezos, the cartoon depicts Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the LA Times, and Disney's Mickey Mouse.

I've never drawn a cartoon that someone took so personally they wanted it killed," Telnaes wrote, noting that the paper's decision to drop the cartoon was "a new standard and a worrying one for press freedom.

As a cartoonist, I'm supposed to keep prominent individuals and institutions honest, but for the first time, my editor is stopping me from doing my job, so I've decided it's time for me to leave The Post.

The Post's opinions editor, David Shipley, released a statement saying he has a high regard for Telnaes and her work, but he strongly disagrees with the way she looks at things going on.

While not all editorial decisions stem from malicious intentions, I based my choice on the fact that we had recently printed a piece on the same subject and had another column, a satirical one, that was already scheduled to run. The only consideration was avoiding repetition.

Jeff Stein, a White House economics journalist for The Post, retweeted the cartoon and a link to Telnaes' Substack article on Twitter.

Patricia Telnaes, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartoons, is a longtime advocate for free speech and the use of editorial cartoons as a means of sparking civic discussion.

Telnaes concluded her article on Substack by quoting the Post's motto, which reads: "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

Jeff Bezos has been the owner of The Washington Post since 2013, when his company Nash Holdings acquired the newspaper for $250 million.

Business Insider has reached out to Telnaes and Shipley for comment.

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