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Chris Lehman graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1997. He landed his first job less than a month later, producing arts stories for Red River Public Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three years later he headed north to DeKalb, Illinois, where he worked as a reporter and announcer for NPR–affiliate WNIJ–FM. In 2006 he headed west to become the Salem Correspondent for the Northwest News Network.

Tom Byrne has been a fixture covering news in Delaware for three decades. He joined Delaware Public Media in 2010 as our first news director and has guided the news team ever since. When he's not covering the news, he can be found reading history or pursuing his love of all things athletic.

Drewry Fennell is chief officer of strategic communication and development at Christiana Care Health System. She was previously Chief of Staff for Governor Jack Markell and former executive director of the Delaware Criminal Justice Council. She served for a decade as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware and was an attorney with Young Conaway Stargatt and Taylor LLP. Drew has a University of Delaware undergraduate degree and a law degree from Rutgers University. She serves on the boards of the Delaware Center for Justice and the Biggs Museum of Art and on the boards of various community organizations. Her work has earned awards from the Delaware Human Rights Commission, Rutgers University School of Law and other institutions. She is the 2018 Woman of Distinction for the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay.

Nancy Karibjanian has been with Delaware First Media since its founding in 2009. She is Director of the University of Delaware Center for Political Communication and an instructor in the Communication Department and Journalism Program. Karibjanian is perhaps best known as the anchor of WHYY’s former nightly news program “Delaware Tonight.” Her career spans thirty years in journalism including reporting, producing, anchoring and news management.

Robert J. Varipapa, MD, is a Dover neurologist and the founder and managing shareholder of CNMRI, a Dover-based provider of diagnostic, medical, and rehabilitative care. He is on the staff of Bayhealth Medical Center and chairs the Department of Medicine at Kent General Hospital. A member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Society of Neuroimaging, the American Medical Association, and is Secretary and Board Member of the Medical Society of Delaware. Varipapa has expertise in Alzheimer's disease, headaches, migraines, magnetic resonance imaging, and sleep disorders. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he completed his neurology residency in 1985.

Evie Stone is the Supervising Editor at Weekend Edition. She collaborates with show staff and newsroom colleagues to ensure that Weekend Edition covers essential news, tells human stories and occasionally makes the audience bark with laughter.

Larry Nagengast, a contributor to Delaware First Media since 2011, has been writing and editing news stories in Delaware for more than five decades.