The Examiner’s Nate Beeler was honored Tuesday night by the National Press Foundation for his work as an editorial cartoonist.
Beeler, who has been cartooning for the paper since its first issue in 2005, was awarded the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning.
Past winners include Steve Breen, Ann Telnaes, Signe Wilkinson, Stuart Carlson, Jim Morin and David Horsey — all Pulitzer Prize winners.
“It’s incredibly humbling,” Beeler said. “Looking at the list of past winners, it makes me heartened to see that some people think I’m doing a good job.”
Slated to share the stage with Beeler on Tuesday at the Washington Hilton were several prominent journalists who will also be receiving awards from the National Press Foundation.
ABC News anchorman Charles Gibson was to receive the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.
The Washington Post’s former executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr., was named the winner of the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award.
Beeler, 28, worked at The Journal newspaper chain in suburban Washington before it became The Examiner in 2005. His work is routinely reprinted in such papers as USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and The Arizona Republic. He’s syndicated nationally in more than 800 papers.
“Not only is Nate a fine draftsman and a natural wit, he’s also a first-rate journalist,” said Stephen G. Smith, executive editor of The Washington Examiner. “He has a sharp eye for incompetence and hypocrisy in government, and his cartoons draw attention to these failings as powerfully as any written commentary. With his work also available on the Web, Nate provides encouragement to other young cartoonists who may mistakenly feel that their passion is a dying form.”
