Illustration and Journalism

[dewline]

As a past courtroom artist, I find this article on Poynter.org more than a tad intriguing. I know that journalism in general is facing some challenging times (in positive and negative ways) and yet - perhaps because of several of my favourite fictional characters - I've long felt an affinity to that profession, whatever I'm actually doing to pay my bills at the time...

Comments

[thewayne]

There's a fraud trial in New York that just started of Martin Shkreli, the pharma bro. The courtroom artist is inadvertently(?) making him look like Gollum.

[thetimesink]

Couple that with the loss of the copy desk at the NYT, and CNN sending a sketch artist to the Whitehouse press briefing? Yeah, that skill set may even help with retaining employment.

[dewline]

Maybe they're trying out for op-ed cartooning?