Tom Kertscher

Tom Kertscher is a reporter for Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit news website. He’s a former longtime newspaper reporter whose gigs included a journalist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a contributing writer for PolitiFact and sports freelancer for The Associated Press.

Kertscher’s stories can also be found on the “Wisconsin Life” website.

Father shares young daughter’s one-liners in self-made book
Milwaukee journalist Tom Kertscher feels gratitude that many years ago, he put his reporter skills to work and captured some of the things his daughter said as a child.
September 18, 2025
‘Voter rescue’: Help in Milwaukee for hundreds who show up at wrong place
On the first day of early in-person voting in Wisconsin on Tuesday, a line 100 people long stretched outside the former Milwaukee Western Bank at 60th and Capitol.
October 29, 2024
Video dating provides journalist a unique travel experience

September 1, 2023
Home away from the homeland: Why so many German immigrants chose Wisconsin

May 18, 2023
Milwaukee has set homicide records 3 years in a row, but violence prevention funds remain unspent

April 6, 2023
Fact or fiction: Al Capone’s Wisconsin stomping grounds

March 7, 2023
Where can you hear jazz and blues music in Milwaukee?

February 22, 2023