Renee Fox
ReporterRenee Fox is a reporter for 89.7 NPR News. Fox joined the WOSU newsroom from the Tribune Chronicle/Vindicator in the Youngstown area, where she’d been a reporter since 2014.
Fox has been nominated for and won several awards for her work, which ranges from local government coverage to investigative journalism and features.
She’s also an Air Force veteran and former defense contractor who worked on linguistics projects at Bagram Airfield and other bases in Afghanistan.
Fox served in the United States Air Force after joining in 2006 as an Airman First Class at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California where she also completed the Pashto Basic Course. She served as a specialist for a voice biometric project based at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan in 2009, and from 2010 to 2011.
Fox studied International Journalism at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and political science at the Hawaii Pacific University – Honolulu.
Contact Renee at renee.fox@wosu.org.
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Nana Watson, the former president of the Columbus branch of the NAACP, wants a Franklin County judge to stop the organization from electing a new president by issuing a restraining order. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentCoal companies want a relaxation of coal ash standards, and wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency to request one. Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA, may give it to them. Opponents say the move would wreak havoc on human health and water sources. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentAn Ohio Medicaid spokesperson said there aren't problems getting payments to providers, as an employee revealed earlier this month. But Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University Medical Center confirmed the problems. -
A Licking County judge agreed to order a second competency evaluation for Bruce Foster III. He's accused of killing two and injuring four in February at KDC/ONE, a cosmetics production facility in New Albany. -
The city council in Grove City voted to create a grant program to pay the health insurance premiums for the city's low-income residents. It may be the first program of its kind, but hasn't been funded yet. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentUnhoused people were living temporarily in the Loyalty Inn on Columbus' Far East Side after the city dismantled outdoor encampments late last year. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentThe state's Doula Advisory Board says they're being forced out of a process meant to increase doula availability in Ohio. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentFor the past year, IT problems in Ohio's Medicaid system is making it difficult for providers and hospital systems to get paid. It's unclear when a fix is coming. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentDoulas are happy that a new certification process will allow the state to reimburse them for services through Medicaid. It's meant to help improve infant mortality rates in the state, but they say the process is making it harder for doulas to serve pregnant women. -
Business & EconomyA central Ohio data center, RackSquared, was developed by the Columbus-based Wasserstrom restaurant supply company to meet the company's growing data needs. The data center developed into its own business.
