LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Andy Wolfson, a longtime Louisville Courier Journal reporter , died at his home in the Highlands on Sept. 17 after a battle with several health issues. He was 70.
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he graduated from Colorado College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism before beginning his career in journalism, including work on the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, according to the paper.
Wolfson spent more than 44 years at the Courier Journal, where he played a key role in reporting that helped the paper win two Pulitzer Prizes.
In 1989, the paper received the award for coverage of the Carroll County bus crash that killed 27 people, and in 2020 for breaking news coverage of pardons issued by former Gov. Matt Bevin, according