$2,500 AWARD
Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons
Award Established 1989

In 1989 Florence Berryman, former art critic of The Washington Star, endowed an annual award in memory of her late father and brother, both Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists. The Berryman Award is open to U.S.-based editorial cartoonists for work that exhibits power to influence public opinion, plus good drawing and striking effect. The cartoons should represent the highest standards of journalism. The award includes a cash prize of $2,500 and the winner participates in NPF’s annual awards event.

Freelance cartoonist Jen Sorensen has been awarded the 2023 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. Her four-panel approach has criticized how society worships wealthy people with “big” ideas, satirized the doubling of “frontover” deaths as vehicle height increases, and explored the evolution of Twitter, from the early years of random thoughts to a take on what “X” has become.

Sorensen accepted the award at NPF’s annual awards dinner Feb. 15, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Last year’s winner was Ward Sutton whose satire skewered U.S. politicians for inaction on school shootings, explored dark scenarios about the end of American democracy, and portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping as new lovers in an ardent authoritarian embrace.

Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons
Award value
$2,500
Award established
1989