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 Ohio Mayors Alliance, which includes mayors from 31 of the state’s larger cities, is recommending a new statewide policy agenda for the next governor and general assembly. -
Two Republican and two Democratic state representatives have sent a letter to the Ohio Department of Transportation. -
Neither Republican Vivek Ramaswamy or Democrat Amy Acton have been ever been elected to political offices. -
Former lawmaker Ray Miller passed away in the early morning hours of August 28, 2026. -
Amy Acton made her comments after being endorsed by the Ohio Patrolman's Benevolence Association Tuesday. -
The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously turned away a lawsuit filed by a Republican Youngstown-area judge. -
Amy Acton and other Democrats have said Ohio currently has one of the most corrupt statehouses in the country. -
Two bills to regulate Flock cameras in Ohio are in the works—one in the House and one in the Senate. -
It's in contrast to a ballot measure that Republican state lawmakers championed in 2023 that would have made it harder for citizens to amend the Ohio Constitution. -
Flock cameras have been at the heart of controversies over civil liberties lately, including in Ohio.
