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The Los Angeles Times has tapped Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey to revamp the "Top of the Ticket" politics blog with cartoons and commentary. The blog has been dormant since Andrew Malcolm moved on. Here's the note to the newsroom from editor Russ Stanton, after the jump.
From: Stanton, Russ
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:31 AM
To: yyeditall; yyDCburo
Subject: David Horsey
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey is joining the Los Angeles Times political team in January. David will be re-crafting the “Top of the Ticket” blog with his unique combination of cartoons and written commentary.David is leaving the Seattle Post-Intelligencer after a long career that took him to political party conventions, presidential primaries, Summer and Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl, on assignments in Europe, Japan and Mexico and to Washington, D.C. where he did two extended stints in the Hearst Newspapers Washington bureau. You can get a good feel for his thought-provoking work at www.davidhorsey.com.
He will work with 2012 campaign editor Cathy Decker and Asst. National Editor Steve Padilla as we re-launch “Top of the Ticket” for the primary season. David will jump into the fray with an early visit to South Carolina, a pivotal state that holds its primary on January 21st.
Since print publication of the P-I ceased in 2009, Horsey has provided cartoons and columns for the Hearst newspapers in San Francisco, San Antonio, Houston, Albany and Connecticut, as well as for seattlepi.com.
David won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1999 and 2003 and was a finalist in 1987. In 1998, he received the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year. He is a recipient of numerous other national and regional awards for both cartooning and writing, including first place in Special Topic Column Writing in the 2009 Best of the West Journalism Competition for coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.
He received a BA in Communications from the University of Washington where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily. As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, David earned an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.). In 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Seattle University.
He has published seven collections of his work, most recently From Hanging Chad to Baghdad (2003) and Draw Quick, Shoot Straight (2007).
Russ Stanton
Editor
Los Angeles Times