Cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after the Washington Post rejected a cartoon featuring owner Jess Bezos. (Reuters: Paul Ellis/Pool ) A Pulitzer Prize-

Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising newspaper's owner Jeff Bezos and Trump rejected

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Cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after the Washington Post rejected a cartoon featuring owner Jess Bezos. (Reuters: Paul Ellis/Pool )

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the Washington Post, saying her editor refused to publish a sketch satirising the newspaper's billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Mr Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, was depicted in a cartoon by Ann Telnaes offering money and bowing to Donald Trump alongside other tech billionaires.

The newspaper rejected Telnaes's view of events and said the rejection was because other columns had already covered the issue.

A cartoonist at the Washington Post has resigned after the newspaper refused to publish a sketch featuring the publication's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, satirised bowing before Donald Trump.

"I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations — and some differences — about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I've never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at," Ann Telnaes wrote on her Substack blog.