George Shillcock
ReporterGeorge Shillcock is a reporter for 89.7 NPR News, covering daily breaking news. He joined the WOSU newsroom in April 2023.
Shillcock started his career in Iowa in 2020, reporting on the suburban communities of Des Moines for the Des Moines Register and local government, politics and development for the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
Shillcock's work has been recognized by the Associated Press Media Editors of Ohio, the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists and Iowa Newspaper Association with awards for investigative journalism, coverage of government and politics, features and community reporting.
In 2025, the Ohio SPJ and the Press Club of Cleveland recognized Shillcock with first place awards for Best Reporter. The Ohio SPJ has also recognized Shillcock's work at WOSU with first place awards in consumer and business reporting, government and political reporting and continuing coverage of pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.
Shillcock's investigation of a troubled solar company in North Liberty, Iowa earned him the prestigious Harrison "Skip" Weber Investigative Journalism award. The months-long investigation was the first to expose the wrongdoing of the prominent company and eventually led to its CEO resigning and the company shuttering.
Through the USA Today Network, his work has been featured in dozens of newspapers in Iowa, Ohio and around the country.
Born in Byram, New Jersey and raised in Harrison, Ohio, Shillcock graduated from Ohio University in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in political science.
Contact George at george.shillcock@wosu.org.
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Don Leonard, Brian Poindexter and Kristina Knickerbocker all unseated Republican incumbents. Ohio's map was drawn to favor Republicans in 12 races. -
The issues would make it so the nine existing city council seats are only elected by voters within the nine districts. Issue 9 makes other changes too. -
Ohio’s 15th Congressional District was redrawn to cover much of southwest Franklin County and counties to the south and west like Miami and Pickaway. -
Ohio voters have until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to return mail-in ballots to their county board of elections. If a ballot is mailed, it may not arrive on time to be counted. -
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Carey is being challenged by Democrat Don Leonard and Libertarian candidate Brennan Barrington. -
The organization Voters Have Choices is running ads urging people only to support Issue 8 while other groups support a "yes" vote on both issues. -
Trump spoke Thursday night at the Shoemaker Center at Ohio University's satellite campus in Chillicothe. The gymnasium was filled to capacity with about 3,000 people. -
Republican George Voinovich ran an ad during a 1988 U.S. Senate race saying his Democratic opponent, Howard Metzenbaum, didn't have a strong stance on child pornography. -
There is still a little more than one week to vote early. -
A political action committee named "Voters Have Choices" is funded entirely by a man named Darryl Tanner. He's trying to influence a local ballot issue campaign.
