Joe Soldwedel is a survivor – times two.
He has logged more than 60 years in the media and publishing industry, and has been to hell and back after being intentionally poisoned.
Soldwedel, 71, the patriarch of the family-owned media company Western News&Info, Inc. – the parent company to Williams-Grand Canyon News – began his career in the media business in May 1963, at the age of 11, for the Yuma Daily Sun. “Being a carrier helped teach me about managing money and getting organized,” he said.
His father, Don, bought The (Prescott) Daily Courier with partner F.F. McNaughton in 1958, and built Western Newspapers, Inc. – now Western News&Info, Inc. – into a multi-media enterprise that has comprised three daily newspapers, 12 non-dailies, 44 specialty publications, two radio stations, two telephone directories, an outdoor advertising company, a specialty sign firm, two central…
