Cartoonist Jen Sorensen was named this year’s winner of the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. Her work still appears regularly in alt-weekly papers such as Seven Days, The Austin Chronicle, and C-VILLE Weekly, as well as The Nation, Politico, and online 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 judges were impressed with Sorensen’s “unique” skill in taking on a “galaxy of issues,“ noting “[her] cartoons aren’t just reacting to one thing that happened in the news, she looks at bigger trends.”
Sorensen, who was President of the AAEC in 2021, is also the winner of the 2014 Herblock Prize, the 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a 2013 National Cartoonists Society Award for Editorial Cartooning, multiple First Place Awards from the Association of Alternative Media, and was finalist for the Pulitzer.
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. Sorensen will accept the award, which comes with a $2,500 prize, at NPF’s annual awards dinner on February 15, 2024.
Congrats, Jen!
