Jo Ingles
Journalist/ProducerContact Jo Ingles at jingles@statehousenews.org.
Jo Ingles covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment.
After working for more than a decade at WOSU-AM, Jo was hired by the Bureau in 1999. Her work has been featured on national networks such as National Public Radio, Marketplace, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium and the BBC. She is often a guest on radio talk shows heard on Ohio's public radio stations. In addition, she's a regular guest on WOSU-TV's "Columbus on the Record" and WBNS-TV's "Face the State." Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and Reuters News Service.
She has won many awards for her work across all of those platforms. She is currently the president of the Ohio Radio and TV Correspondents Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association and a board member for the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters. Jo also works as the Media Adviser for the Ohio Wesleyan University Transcript newspaper and OWU radio.
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Starting Sept. 30, anyone under 21 who gets a driver鈥檚 license in Ohio will have to go through driver鈥檚 education classes. -
Ohio's leaders will be drawing new congressional district lines this fall, and once again citizens can submit their suggestions. -
Policy Matters Ohio's annual report shows union membership is also decreasing. -
An Ohio lawmaker who's a former teacher has proposed a bill that would pay student educators on teaching assignments. -
The exhibit, announced around the time former Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor's portrait was moved, features prominent women in the legal profession in Ohio. -
Some Ohioans who are former members of the military said the duty being assigned to them by President Trump is not what they should be doing. -
An Ohio senator wants to make the peanut butter and chocolate confection the state's "official candy." -
President Trump said earlier this week that he wants to ban voting machines and mail-in voting; the latter has been part of Ohio鈥檚 early voting period for nearly 20 years. -
The former leader of minority Democrats in the Ohio House is launching a campaign for secretary of state next year, joining a contest that already has a Democrat in it. -
Sherrod Brown announced Monday that he will run against U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) in next year's election.
