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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The “My Child-My Chart” Act provides Ohio parents with more access to their children's medical information. -
Ohio Democrats produced a map in early September that would result in an 8R-7D split, which was dismissed by Republicans as "gerrymandered". -
The seven member panel of lawmakers that make up the Ohio Redistricting Commission is facing an Oct. 31 deadline to come up with an agreement on a bipartisan congressional map. -
Congressional redistricting is underway in Ohio again, but many of its one-time supporters say it isn't working as intended. -
An Ohio House committee is considering a bill that would lower the maximum unemployment benefit from the current 26 weeks to 20 weeks. -
Soybean farmers in Ohio in particular have been hard hit by tariffs. -
But the Ohio Redistricting Commission might not have a Republican map to consider at its first meeting this month. -
Funding for the federal government expired at midnight Wednesday morning, October 1, 2025. -
The Democratic National Committee plans to help rebuild the party in Ohio. -
A new Republican bill would require Ohio public schools to show videos depicting human prenatal development from embryo to to students every year from third grade until graduation.
