Longtime State Journal sports columnist Tom Oates retires
Jul. 7, 2020
Four decades after joining the Wisconsin State Journal newsroom, longtime sports columnist Tom Oates has announced his retirement.
Four decades after joining the Wisconsin State Journal newsroom, longtime sports columnist Tom Oates has announced his retirement.
Curt W. “Bill” Hibbard Jr., a longtime reporter and editor for the Milwaukee Journal, died Wednesday, July 1. He was 92.
After graduating with his journalism degree from UW-Madison in 1950, Hibbard started his career covering city hall and police for the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald in Iowa. A year later, he returned to Wisconsin to join the reporting staff at the Journal, where he served in several roles, including writing for the men’s lifestyle section and traveling around the word as the newspaper’s travel editor.
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