{
  "id": 10555578,
  "title": "We cartoonists are a dying breed. It’s a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/we-cartoonists-are-a-dying-breed-its-a-canary-in-the-coalmine-for-a",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T22:57:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crikey",
    "slug": "crikey",
    "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/cartoons-cathy-wilcox-fiona-katauskas-ann-telnaes-kevin-kal-kallaugher-jason-chatfield/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they answer to the reader. The post We cartoonists are a dying breed. It’s a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy appeared first on Crikey .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}