Mark Arehart
Arts Reporter/HostMark Arehart joined the award-winning WKSU news team as its arts/culture reporter in 2017. Before coming to Northeast Ohio, Arehart hosted Morning Edition and covered the arts scene for Delaware Public Media. He previously worked for KNKX in Seattle, Kansas Public Radio, and KYUK in Bethel, Alaska.
His reporting has taken him everywhere from remote islands in the Bering Sea to the tops of skyscrapers overlooking Puget Sound. Arehart has been featured on NPR and the Alaska Public Radio Network.
Equal parts Nebraskan/Kansan and a University of Kansas graduate, he's a diehard college basketball fan. He loves reading crime fiction and fantasy, as well as enjoying movies with subtitles, explosions, or both.
As a former morning drive-time host, you'll likely find him out walking his dog, Otis, well before sunrise.
Feel free to tweet at him, find him on Instagram, or send him an email.
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Jen Miller, executive director for the League of Women Voters of Ohio, gives an update on the status of those outstanding votes and why counting them matters. -
Akron City Council President Margo Sommerville explains the effect of the six charter amendments voters passed Tuesday and what comes next. -
Tim Ryan is projected to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 10th time, handily beating his opponent Christina Hagan. -
Following its earlier move to allow students to participate in fall sports—a reversal of its initial decision—the Akron Board of Education gives the OK for winter sports amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic. -
FirstEnergy's new CEO Steve Strah acknowledges the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the company after the former CEO and two other executives were fired last week. -
Miguel Arriola talks about the immigrant experience and extended families. How did his family separate the vulnerable from those who work outside the house? -
The pro football Hall of Fame Village has ballooned into a $900 million project billed as the future “Disneyland of Football.” But what about the project’s past funding troubles and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic? We talk with CEO Mike Crawford about the current state of the Hall of Fame Village. -
The pro football Hall of Fame Village in Canton just started construction on the second phase of a years’ long, nearly billion dollar project. WKSU’s Mark Arehart speaks with CEO Mike Crawford about the big bet to turn the Hall of Fame Village into the ‘Disneyland of football.’ -
WKSU's Mark Arehart talks with activist and writer Rachel Cargle about opening Elizabeth's pop-up bookshop in Akron. -
Akron City Council met over Zoom Monday introducing new working groups to reexamine the relationship between the city and its police department. They were…
