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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.

A former vice president of the Fond du Lac Reporter, Kenneth Millar Sr., died on Feb. 7, 2025 at the age of 94.

Former Mayville News, Princeton Times-Republic and Berlin Journal newspapers staffer Mary Ann (Schmidt) Wolff died Jan. 19, 2025 at the age of 87.

A Jan. 19 memorial service is planned for former Lodi Enterprise managing editor Peg Zaemisch, who died Jan. 6, 2025 at the age of 76 in Clintonville.

A Saturday, Jan. 18 memorial service is scheduled for longtime Prescott and River Falls journalist Judy Wiff, who died on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.  The