Jo Ingles
Journalist/ProducerContact Jo Ingles at jingles@statehousenews.org.
Jo Ingles covers politics and Ohio government 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 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 WBNS-TV's "Face the State." Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and 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 Correspondents Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondents 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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An appeals court has ruled the state of Ohio does not have the legal authority to prevent communities from banning flavored tobacco products -
The ban is scheduled to begin in January 2026, but some Ohio districts are opting to implement it when students return from summer break. -
Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann filed the lawsuit in a Franklin County Court. -
The officers will help authorities in areas of Texas that flooded this weekend. -
A previous attempt to tie student scholarships to an institution's compliance with a new anti-DEI law for state universities was not included in the final version of the new two-year state budget. -
A group that is collecting signatures to put property tax abolition on the statewide ballot in Ohio next year is questioning budget decisions. -
Ohio’s Attorney General has given the green light to backers of an anti-discrimination amendment in the first step to put their measure on the ballot next year. -
Ohio will soon be requiring anyone under the age of 21 years old to take driver’s education training before getting a license. -
Ohio's Equal Rights Amendment would provide non-discrimination coverage to a lot of people, not just women. -
Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed one measure that Ohio school officials said would have left many districts in financial chaos.
