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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Changes are being made to the federal program to give Ohio and other states more flexibility in how to use broadband funds. -
The Ohio Medical Fairness Act is not a debt forgiveness plan, but seeks to help people with huge medical bills manage them. -
Ohio Democratic Party chair Liz Walters is resigning her post after four years in that office. -
Attorney General Dave Yost has approved the language for petitions to bring a repeal of Senate Bill 1 to the ballot. -
The legislation comes after a U.S. Marshal brought concerns to an Ohio lawmaker. -
The Ohio protestors marched around the city block that surrounds the Statehouse Thursday evening. -
Ohio lawmakers are considering requiring cities to cooperate with immigration officials and if they don鈥檛, they could lose state funding. -
Ohio鈥檚 House Bill 68 has been on hold because of a federal court's injunction. -
Of the roughly 8 million registered voters in Ohio, only 83,229 have returned ballots during the early voting period. -
The report took a look at the House-passed budget and its effect on schools in Ohio's Appalachian region.
