Jo Ingles
Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television 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 Ohio Public Radio/TV News 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 ONN’s “Capitol Square”. Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and the 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 Correspondent’s Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondent’s 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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Health, Science & EnvironmentMany Ohio patients who have appointments for abortions will have to get those services elsewhere, abortion advocates said. -
Republican lawmakers, who have a supermajority at the Ohio Statehouse, are poised to make abortion illegal but Democrats say it's not over yet. -
Congressman and Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan said no one should be above the law. -
Dozens of demonstrators gathered at a church in Columbus to protest an Ohio House bill that would ban the instruction and teaching of certain concepts. -
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is gaining quick access to ATF’s library of 4.5 million pieces of ballistic evidence, the only automated interstate ballistic imaging network in the U.S. -
Gov. Mike DeWine says most of the new $3.5 billion budget will be paid for in cash. -
Business & EconomyThe leader of a statewide food banks association said the need is up and donations are down as inflation shrinks the food supply. -
Researchers found brain scans were a more accurate predictor than the social demographics in predicting a person's political persuasion. -
The group, All In For Ohio, said it will push for tax, educational, and social justice reforms -
Opponents of vaccine mandates are taking on a new fight in the Ohio Statehouse with a bill that would do away with incentives or penalties for businesses that are based on requiring their employees to get vaccinated.
