North Carolina-born Doug Marlette, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1988 and was a member of the Class of 1981, died Tuesday morning in a single-car accident in northwest Mississippi. He was 57.

Read more in  The Washington Post

Marlette’s contributions to Nieman Reports and to the Nieman Foundation:

• “The Voice of Independent Journalism”
• “Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon”
• “The Muslim Cartoon Controversy Exposed an Absence of Courage”