West Virginia newspaper executive and former House of Delegates Democratic leader Doug Skaff Jr. has died in a highway accident. He was 48.

After the tragic death, on June 10, 2025 of Doug Skaff Jr., tributes and remembrances poured in for Skaff, the president of HD Media, which publishes the Charleston Gazette-Mail and other newspapers in West Virginia,

Doug Skaff Jr., a former lawmaker and well-known businessman in the Kanawha Valley, died Tuesday, officials said. He was 48.Skaff died in a car crash on Interst