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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The Ohio Auditor's Office found former Blendon Township Administrator Bryan Rhoads was improperly paid and misused township credit cards. -
Favor is leaving City Council after she was elected to become the next Franklin County prosecutor. City Council will appoint her successor in January. -
David Pearson was charged after shooting Lt. Rodney Osborne during a "dry" training exercise at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction training academy in Orient in April. -
George "Billy" Wagner III is charged with multiple counts, including aggravated murder, in connection with the 2016 shooting deaths of members of the Rhoden family. -
The NAACP's Ohio State Conference president, Tom Roberts, was appointed administrator over the Columbus branch. -
Principal Monica Asher returned to her job Tuesday after she was placed on paid leave for lamenting the results of the Nov. 5 election in a newsletter. -
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.