Walt Wurfel - Reporter, Press Secretary, Editor, General Manager, November 29, 2018

Walt Wurfel, whose career spanned the worlds of radio, print and politics in colorful ways, died last Thursday at The Kensington, a Falls Church, VA assisted living facility, where he had been living for the last year and a half. He was 81. In radio circles,

Wurfel is perhaps best known for his decade of service to the National Association of Broadcasters, where he was senior VP of Communications from 1986-1997. That put him at the center of industry lobbying efforts that contributed to passage of the landmark Telecom Act of 1996. Before joining the trade group, Wurfel was already well known on Capitol Hill, having served as White House deputy press secretary under Jody Powell during the Carter administration and as press secretary to Hubert Humphrey’s presidential primary campaign in 1972.

Wurfel’s media career ranged from show leather reporting to corporate positions in the C-suite. He was operations director of radio stations in Middletown and Utica, NY at Straus Broadcasting Group and assistant news director WTSJ-TV San Juan, Puerto Rico. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University School of Journalism, Wurfel worked as a reporter for the Washington Evening Star and as foreign editor and then political editor at the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times. His newspaper career took him to the VP of Corporate Communications position at Gannett Co.

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