Jodi Heckel
Heckel joined the News Bureau in November 2014 as the arts and humanities editor.
She previously worked in a variety of editorial positions at the (Champaign, Ill.) News-Gazette newspaper for 18 years, including 15 years as a reporter, covering higher education and K-12 education, among other topics, and more than three years as a magazine editor. She continues to write a fitness column for the newspaper.
She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and a law degree from the University of Illinois.
