Editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press has earned first-place honors in the 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards.
The awards, presented Saturday night by the Society of Professional Journalists at a banquet at Georgia’s Kennesaw State University, recognize the best in print, broadcast and online journalism produced throughout 11 Southeastern states. The other finalists in the editorial cartooning category were Bill Day of United Features Syndicate and Chan Lowe of The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
Bennett, 52, joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in late 2007 and previously worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Fayetteville (N.C.) Times, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and The Christian Science Monitor in Boston.
This is the third Green Eyeshade Award for Bennett, whose previous honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award, two Overseas Press Club Awards and three National Headliner Awards.