Abbey Marshall is an award-winning reporter covering power and influence for Crain’s Cleveland Business. Her work is focused on how and why things get done in Northeast Ohio, tracking money and people affiliated with major decisions and identifying the influential power brokers and institutions in the region.

She previously worked as the Cleveland-area local government and politics reporter and producer for Northeast Ohio’s NPR affiliate, Ideastream Public Media/WKSU. In addition to day-to-day City Hall happenings, she reported how politics affected people’s everyday lives, frequently covering issues of equity, diversity and inclusion, housing, community, LGBTQ+ issues and more. Her work aired locally, statewide and nationally on NPR programs.

Prior to that, she covered local government for the Akron Beacon Journal, writing about a variety of issues including the fatal police shooting of Jayland Walker and subsequent protests, abortion access after the implementation of Ohio’s heartbeat bill, housing issues for low-income residents, urban planning, city budgets and more. She joined the Beacon Journal after a Report for America fellowship at The Devil Strip, a cooperatively-owned community magazine and online publication for which she covered economic development.

As a freelance writer, her work has appeared in The Washington Post, POLITICO and The Athens Messenger, a rural county daily in Appalachian Ohio.

A 2020 graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, she studied journalism in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism with a French minor and visual communications specialization. She was the recipient of the Wood Cutler Scholar Award, a four-year, full merit scholarship with additional enrichment opportunities including outdoor leadership, service internship, international experience and professional internship. In addition to other collegiate work, Abbey attended the 2019 WHCA Dinner as a White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar. Internships included: POLITICO in Washington, D.C. (editorial intern fall 2019), The Columbus Dispatch (metro intern in summer 2018 and digital desk intern in 2019), Magic Bus India in Mumbai, India (communications intern summer 2017).

In her free time, she is a playwright, director, stage manager and actor.