Matt Wuerker of The POLITICO has won the 2010 the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for editorial cartooning, one the field’s most prestigious awards.

“Matt’s drawings blend satire, irony and the right amount of anger to skewer the politically powerful of all persuasions,” the judges said. The judges for the 2010 Berryman were Tom Rosenstiel, director, Project for Excellence in Journalism; Susan Swain, co-president of C-SPAN; Karen Doyne, Director, Crisis Management, Burson-Marsteller; Kevin Goldberg, media attorney, Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth (all of whom are members of the NPF board); and Steve Breen, editorial cartoonist of the San Diego Union-Tribune, who won the Berryman in 2007.

The Berrymans were a father and son team of cartoonists who each won a Pulitzer Prize while working for the Washington Star. Funds are taken from an endowment created in 1989 by Florence Berryman, the former at critic for the Star, in honor of her father and brother.

Garnering Honorable Mentions for their work were Tom Toles of The Washington Post; Daryl Cagle of MSNBC and Jimmy Margulies of The Record (New Jersey). Wuerker received an Honorable Mention last year; Margulies won the award in 2005.

2010 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons
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