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When Clay Bennett left The Christian Science Monitor in 2008 to join the Chattanooga Times Free Press, his editorial cartoons became available for syndication. Washington Post Writers Group Editorial Director Alan Shearer immediately signed Bennett, despite industry forces that are depleting the ranks of cartoonists and reducing the space for their work. "I've heard people in our business say editorial cartooning is in decline as newspapers slash and burn, and they are right to a degree," Shearer said. "But creatively, cartooning is as strong as ever, and Clay is one of the brightest lights. His work will be a strong presence in the marketplace."
Bennett had been the editorial cartoonist for The Christian Science Monitor since 1998 and, while there, he was a Pulitzer finalist for an unprecedented five consecutive years, winning it in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.
Bennett was the editorial cartoonist at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times from 1981 until he was fired in 1994, whereupon he spent more than three years in "professional oblivion" before being hired by The Monitor. "The Christian Science Monitor saved my career," said Bennett. "The editors there showed faith in me when few in this business seemed willing to." Before working in St. Petersburg, Bennett was a staff artist at both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Fayetteville (NC) Times.
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