Howard Wilkinson
Senior Political AnalystExpertise: Politics, baseball, the Civil War, Ohio and Cincinnati history
Education: Ohio University
Favorite Cincinnati neighborhood: Toss-up between Clifton and Northside.
Highlights
- Senior Political Analyst, WVXU
- Regular digital columnist on WVXU.org. Also a frequent guest on Cincinnati Edition
- Does a weekly politics segment each Friday morning with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik
- In his 50th year of covering politics on the local, state and national levels
Experience
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU news team in April 2012 after nearly 30 years of covering politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. He has covered every Ohio governor's race since 1974, along with 16 presidential nomination conventions and four presidential inaugurations. In addition to politics, Howard covered the 2001 racial unrest in Cincinnati; the Lucasville prison uprising in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. A native of Dayton, Ohio, the Cincinnati Reds are his passion.
In 2012, the Society of Professional Journalists inducted Wilkinson into the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.
Education
Howard studied journalism and history at Ohio University, where he also frequently skipped class to cover the Ohio Statehouse for the school newspaper, The Post.
About WVXU
The central pillar of Cincinnati Public Radio’s local network — accounting for the lion’s share of its 211,000 listeners each week — 91.7 WVXU is among the most reliable media institutions in the Tri-State region. Our mission is to always be a trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture, empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Why trust us
Our team of reporters and editors have decades of experience writing and reporting the news. Our first responsibility is to our listeners and readers. There is no connection between our funding and editorial decisions. When we do cover a funding partner, a disclosure will be mentioned on-air and online. We take pride in our work, editing and fact-checking every story. If an article warrants a correction, we will immediately correct it and explain the correction for complete transparency.
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It depends on who you ask.
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