Jenny Hamel
Education Reporter/ProducerJenny is a long-time reporter and host for public radio and television. She’s covered everything from education to politics, social issues to the environment, entertainment to tech.
She's currently an education reporter with Ideastream Public Media and calls the eastside of Cleveland home!
Prior to that, she spent six years working as a reporter and producer at KCRW, the NPR affiliate in Los Angeles.
Before jumping into the public radio world, she worked in San Diego as a television anchor and reporter at XETV and KSWB.
Jenny is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where she received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She was an award-winning member of the UCLA Debate team.
Jenny has been recognized by the Cleveland Press Club, the Los Angeles Press Club, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others.
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Betty Jacobs is the executive director of LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County. She hosts support groups, counsels families and advocates to elected officials. But it's hard work to do alone. -
Oberlin High School celebrated its nationally recognized "Teacher of the Year" on Thursday. History teacher Kurt Russell was chosen for the honor by the Council of Chief State Officers earlier this week.
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The Marshall Project has tapped Jim Crutchfield as editor-in-chief of its Cleveland newsroom. Lila Mills has been selected as Cleveland editor-in-chief of the Ohio Local News Initiative.
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Meetings will continue through the end of April for members to discuss a proposed Ohio High School Athletics Association bylaw that would allow high school athletes to get paid for use of their name, image or likeness.
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The Greater Cleveland chapter of the National Action Network rallied with students outside of the law school Thursday evening.
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A memorial service was held Wednesday for Andrews, who spent 45 years in prison for the murder of his wife. A crime he did not commit.
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The May 3 primary will not include the state legislative races, which are caught up in the legal wrangling over redistricting in Ohio.
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In an email to CMSD educators, CMSD CEO Eric Gordon said that while the district is not announcing a mask-optional policy, he is asking “all employees to suspend the enforcement of the mask policy.”
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Peter Teluk and his family live in Stow where his son attends high school, but the attorney lived in Ukraine for 25 years. His wife, Natalia, had recently returned to Kyiv and was staying in their apartment in town. On Thursday morning, at approximately 5:40 a.m, she woke to the sound of two explosions, Teluk told Ideastream Public Media.
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For students going to college for the first time, being out on your own can be both intimidating and exciting. But after a senior year in high school that was completely rocked by the pandemic, freshmen are embracing the nerves and normalcy of being on campus. Aja Leatherwood’s dorm room at Case Western Reserve University is a tiny space, but the freshman keeps her things organized. There’s a lot of stuffed characters, or ‘plushies,’ on Leatherwood’s bed and around her room.
