Howard Wilkinson, WVXU
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
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Why trust us
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Primarily, ballot boxes in Ohio do not lead to voter fraud. -
That news pricked up the ears of the political class all over Ohio, and rightly so. -
The 1878 robbery of John Scott Harrison's body from a North Bend tomb led to Ohio's law on trafficking in corpses. -
It's likely a sign that Sen. Jon Husted, R-OH, is in trouble. -
Republican candidate for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy posted the undated video of a campaign speech to his X account April 14. -
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose caved into the demands from the Trump Justice Department on voter records, -
The campaign of Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted a video saying Ohio should consolidate some universities. -
Ohio's Democratic Congressman Greg Landsman is taking a political risk with his support for Iran war. -
Senate Bill 63 would yank state funding from cities that want ranked choice voting, even though there is no community in Ohio with ranked choice voting today. -
Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84.
