Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, business editor to visit

Matt Davies, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and Charles Zehren, deputy business editor of Newsday, will visit UW–Madison this month as writers in residence.

Davies’ work for The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y. was praised by the Pulitzer jury for “his piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style.”

He will speak to journalism and political science classes during the week of Oct. 25 as the fall Public Affairs Writer in Residence. He will also speak to art students and faculty and to residents of the Chadbourne Residential College as part of its series of talks on “What Matters to Me and Why.”

Zehren manages reporters in New York and Washington, D.C., covering the national economy, Wall Street, commercial real estate and the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. He also led an award-winning team of reporters investigating environmental health and safety violations at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.

During his stay the week of Oct. 18, Zehren will speak to classes and meet with students informally at the School of Business and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Davies’ cartoons are distributed worldwide by Tribune Media Services, and appear regularly in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.

He also won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for a collection of cartoons and this year was the first recipient of the annual Herblock Prize, named for the late legendary cartoonist Herbert Block.

Zehren, a Green Bay native who received a master’s degree in agricultural economics at UW–Madison, has also played a central role in the development of Newsday’s multimedia strategy, including Newsday.com/Business, radio updates with joint venture partners and nightly television business reports on which he appears.

The Writer in Residence Program is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and University Communications, with support from the UW Foundation. The public affairs program is cosponsored by the LaFollette School of Public Affairs and the business program is cosponsored by the School of Business.