Mark Ferenchik
WOSU News DirectorMark Ferenchik is news director at WOSU 89.7 NPR News.
Before joining WOSU in March 2024, he was a reporter at the Columbus Dispatch for more than 25 years, where he covered Columbus City Hall, urban and growth issues, Columbus neighborhoods and other topics.
Before coming to The Dispatch, he reported for the Canton Repository and Medina County Gazette.
He's won Associated Press and Ohio Society of Professional Journalists awards.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Kent State University and lives in downtown Columbus.
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Columbus police said no arrests were made. -
State lawmakers created the commission in 2019, ahead of the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. However, Statehouse rules drafted amid political tensions in 2020 imposed a new waiting period of five years on erecting any new monuments on Statehouse grounds. -
President Joe Biden announced in March that nearly $20 billion in CHIPS Act money would be spread across Intel projects in Licking County, Arizona, Oregon and New Mexico. -
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost claimed that the title of the "Ohio Voters Bill of Rights" was misleading. -
Dustin Martin, 30, will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty to civil disorder and disorderly and disruptive conduct. -
Terrelle Pryor sued Ohio State, the NCAA, the Big Ten and a communications company to prevent them from using the name, image and likeness of former Ohio State athletes. -
Business & EconomyThe $420 million center will be built on Beech Road and employ 30 people. -
Alexander Menhenett, 43, died in January when Whitehall auxiliary police officer Kyle Schneider tried to arrest him at a Walmart store. -
Columbus City Schools' board Vice President Tina Pierce released a 19-minute phone call with board member Brandon Simmons to show she had nothing to do with a controversial memo. -
Tracy Murnane, former purchasing officer for the Columbus Zoo, will also pay a $5,000 fine.
