Jared Rutecki
Reporter, Journalist, and Web Developer in Chicago, IL
Jared Rutecki is an investigative reporter for WTTW Chicago PBS. He creates stories on state and local government matters. between 2016 and 2022, he sent more than 1,500 public-records requests a year on average.
Jared was an Annenberg National Health Fellow at the University of Southern California in 2021. He has won or shared local and national reporting honors including the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, an EPPY Award, a Chicago/Midwest Emmy, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, Peter Lisagor Awards, Herman Kogan Awards and Sarah Brown Boyden Awards.
Jared was previously an investigative reporter and data coordinator for the Better Government Association and Illinois Answers Project. He managed the Illinois Public Salary and Pension databases and wrote watchdog stories on state and local government matters.
As a web producer at The Columbus Dispatch for nine years, he produced video, wrote stories and developed applications for a variety of sites with an emphasis on breaking news. He began his career as a web producer at ThisWeek News, managing content for 24 community newspapers.
He received his B.A. in journalism from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio and his M.S. in journalism with an emphasis in new media from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.