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Renita Jablonski
Producer / Fill-in Host, Morning Report
Renita was hooked on public radio from the second she walked into the newsroom of NPR and PBS affiliate WOUB at Ohio University but she started producing and delivering newscasts from the second she figured out how to use her parents' cassette recorder. Her younger brother, Henry, would wait patiently for his turn to give the Cleveland weather forecast but she didn't hand the tape deck over too often.
Before coming to Marketplace, Renita served as host and producer at WKSU, helping the station launch a new regional news program called "Your Way Home." Renita also spent nearly five years in front of both radio microphones and TV cameras as an anchor, reporter, and call-in show host at NPR and PBS affiliate WCPN/WVIZ, ideastream.
Her work has been honored by a National Headliner Award, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as recognition from the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, and international Communicator Awards. A long list of state and local awards includes being named one of the best major market anchors by the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters in 2006.
Renita also made her brother perform a variety of sketches and plays she wrote as a kid and that paid off to include a couple professional theater gigs in recent years. There was a time when she considered being an opera singer but these days she utilizes her training in breath support and diction to cheer on her Cleveland Browns, Cavaliers, Indians, and Red Sox.
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"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."
