Retired ‘sportswriter’s sportswriter’ Wedeward dies at 81
Aug. 4, 2025
Former Janesville Gazette sports editor Dave Wedeward died July 30, 2025 at age 81 — less than two weeks before his 82nd birthday.
Former Janesville Gazette sports editor Dave Wedeward died July 30, 2025 at age 81 — less than two weeks before his 82nd birthday.
Former Wisconsin Newspaper Association president Pieter ‘Peter’ F. Graaskamp, age 66, of Eau Claire, passed away Wednesday, July 23, 2025 surrounded by his family at home while under hospice care.
Former Horicon Reporter co-owner Julius Marolla died on Monday, July 21, 2025 at age 86.
Frank A. Aukofer — a 40-year award-winning journalist in Washington and Milwaukee — died July 14, 2025 at the age of 90 surrounded by friends and family at his residence at Goodwin House in Falls Church, Virginia.
Former 40-year Wisconsin State Journal staffer Clifford Charles William “Cliff” Behnke died on Sunday, June 15, 2025.
Ray Carlsen, who worked for the last 23 years of his journalism career as executive director of the Inland Press Assocation, died June 8, 2025 at Johnson Health Care Center at Windsor Park in Carol Stream, Ill.
Dr. Jerrel W. Jones, founder and CEO of Courier Communications, and a prominent figure in Wisconsin’s media landscape, and the first Black man in America to concurrently own a radio station and newspaper, died June 4 at age 85, according to a June 11, 2025 story about Jones in the Milwaukee Community Journal.
Former Minocqua and Beaver Dam reporter and Monroe Times editor Mary Jane Grenzow died May 11 at age 59.
In an April 1, 2025 piece, The Shepherd Express mourned the death of longtime Milwaukee newspaper columnist Joel McNally, who died in February at age 80.
Veteran Milwaukee journalist and columnist Joel McNally died Feb. 25 at age 80, as detailed in a Feb. 27, 2025 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel piece by Hannah Kirby and Jessica Van Egeren.