Karen Kasler
Ohio Public Radio and TV Statehouse Bureau ChiefKaren is a lifelong Ohioan who has served as news director at WCBE-FM, assignment editor/overnight anchor at WBNS-TV, and afternoon drive anchor/assignment editor in WTAM-AM in Cleveland. In addition to her daily reporting for Ohio’s public radio stations, she’s reported for NPR, the BBC, ABC Radio News and other news outlets. She hosts and produces the Statehouse News Bureau’s weekly TV show “The State of Ohio”, which airs on PBS stations statewide. She’s also a frequent guest on WOSU TV’s “Columbus on the Record”, a regular panelist on “The Sound of Ideas” on ideastream in Cleveland, appeared on the inaugural edition of “Face the State” on WBNS-TV and occasionally reports for “PBS Newshour”. She’s often called to moderate debates, including the Columbus Metropolitan Club’s Issue 3/legal marijuana debate and its pre-primary mayoral debate, and the City Club of Cleveland’s US Senate debate in 2012.
Karen is a graduate of Otterbein College, and earned her Master’s as a Fellow in the Kiplinger Program for Mid-Career Journalists at The Ohio State University. Karen has been honored by the Associated Press, the Association of Capitol Editors and Reporters, the Cleveland Press Club/Society of Professional Journalists, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Ohio Valley Emmys, and holds a National Headliner Award.
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Gov. Mike DeWine gave his most concrete signal yet that the end of the pandemic is near, declaring Thursday that he will lift all its COVID-19 public... -
Republicans will continue to dominate the legislative branch of Ohio government in the 134th General Assembly.
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Ohio on Wednesday reported its second-highest number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19, and the third day this week that death totals hit the triple digits.
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COVID-19 cases are rising across the Midwest — and so are hospitalizations and deaths. Some hospitals are facing a flood of patients with fewer staff because their own employees have tested positive or are in quarantine. And they’re still seeing COVID deniers.
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These races may appear at the bottom of the ballot, but they are the only two contests every voter in Ohio will be asked to vote on.
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The latest Quinnipiac poll shows the race between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is a virtual dead heat.
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Absentee ballot requests have been pouring in to boards of elections around Ohio, and are approaching all time records. And in most counties,...
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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were known as close friends, though they were ideological opposites.
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A Republican representative who’s been critical of Ohio’s response to coronavirus has proposed a bill to cancel the state of emergency order from March ...
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There are two bills that would make changes in how income taxes are collected by the biggest cities in Ohio. And a group that advocates for...
