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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Business & EconomyAn annual report from Policy Matters Ohio finds positives in Ohio's 2023 economy, but highlights remaining inequities in the economy. -
A deal between AEP Ohio and Intel to have AEP Ohio's customers foot the $95-million bill for the new electric infrastructure Intel needs is gaining more support. -
State utility regulators at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved $105 million in coal plant subsidies enabled by the corrupt House Bill 6. -
Blendon Township Police officer Connor Grubb posted a $20,000 bond after pleading not guilty to murder and other charges. He shot and killed 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young in a grocery store parking lot last August. -
Blendon Township Police officer Connor Grubb shot 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young, 21, on Aug. 24, 2023, after he and another officer confronted Young inside her car. Young was pregnant at the time and both she and her unborn child died. -
Shawn Waldman, CEO of Secure Cyber in Dayton, said Columbus is doing a poor job of communicating with the public after a ransomware attack that appears to have compromised city employees' data. -
Intel and AEP Ohio have come to an arrangement for how the chip manufacturer will pay the electric company for services. The agreement relies on AEP Ohio's customers to foot the bill.
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Older LGBTQ+ people often face social isolation and fear as they age, and sometimes feel the need to go back into the closet to receive medical care or live in group settings. -
The withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the presidential re-election campaign and the apparent selection of Vice President Kamala Harris is quite different from Lyndon B. Johnson's decision not to run in 1968.
