CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Doug Skaff Jr., a West Virginia newspaper executive and former Democratic legislative leader, died Tuesday (June 10) following an accident on Interstate 79. He was 48.
Skaff was president of HD Media, which publishes the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington and several other state newspapers. The Gazette-Mail announced Skaff’s death on its website Tuesday night.
Details of the accident, which the newspaper said occurred in Lewis County in north-central West Virginia, weren’t immediately released. An operator who answered the telephone for the Lewis County state police office said she had no further information.
