Vice President of Content, Cincinnati Public Radio

Jenell Walton

Jenell Walton is Vice President of Content at Cincinnati Public Radio (CPR) and serves as its Community Advisory Board liaison. Jenell oversees all programming on the classical music station 90.9 WGUC and non-news programming on the NPR Network station 91.7 WVXU Cincinnati and 88.5 WMUB Oxford, as well as managing marketing, outreach, events, and digital and social media activities.

Jenell believes in the power of storytelling to inform, educate and entertain listeners, as well as introduce them to new and diverse programming as part of her role at CPR. In fact, she made programming changes within the first six months on the job.

Jenell is a Cincinnati native and has a long career in media and nonprofit management and governance. Before working for Cincinnati Metro, the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, and the Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau, she spent 12 years covering the issues in Cincinnati as an anchor/reporter/videographer at WCPO-TV 9. She worked as a reporter for the Scripps nationally syndicated news magazine program The List and had a brief stint as a reporter with WLWT News 5 before transitioning out of broadcast journalism.

Jenell earned a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication and a Minor in Political Science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is also an award-winning journalist earning an Emmy for her coverage of the 2005 Shelbyville, Indiana hostage standoff and an Emmy nomination for her impromptu live interview with NAACP President Kweisi Mfume during the 2001 civil unrest in Cincinnati. She has served on the WCPO Community Advisory Board, Cincinnati Public Schools Local School Decision Making Committee, and Women In Film Cincinnati Board of Directors.