A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit in protest after editors killed her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President Donald Trump, has won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary.

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson says he is leaving the Washington Post.

A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos' edict that the newspaper's editorial section concentrate on issues of personal liberties and the free market.

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.

A Washington Post cartoonist says she has decided to quit after editors rejected her sketch of the newspaper's owner and other media executives bowing to President-elect Donald Trump.