Meet the WHYY News Politics Team

What questions do you have about the 2024 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? Let us know.

In this year’s contentious White House race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Pennsylvania is emerging as the most important battleground state.

WHYY News has assembled a team of reporters and editors to bring our audience closer to the issues affecting voters in Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey.

Our public service journalism focuses on elections in our region and the national presidential election to inform our audiences of the issues and help them understand and decide for themselves.

Meet our journalists who bring all the news and unique points of view on the political issues of this election season.

• Carmen Russell-Sluchansky is a multi-platform political reporter covering national elections and political news happening in Pennsylvania.
• Cris Barrish’s award-winning investigative journalism. He reports on Delaware politics from Wilmington.
• Kenny Cooper is a multi-platform journalist focusing on stories from Chester and Delaware counties.
• Sarah Mueller is a politics reporter covering Delaware and is based in Wilmington.
• David Matthau is New Jersey’s state reporter. He reports from Trenton.
• P. Kenneth Burns is a general assignment journalist covering New Jersey.
• Emily Neil is a suburban reporter focusing on Montgomery and Bucks counties.
• Jamila Bey is the editorial director of WHYY News and editor of political articles with national and regional coverage.
• Mark Eichmann is the senior managing editor of WHYY News. He edits the Delaware reporting team.
• Madhu Bora coordinates the suburban team’s coverage and edits and formats stories for political coverage in suburban Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The WHYY News team welcomes your comments. We love hearing from our audience via feedback forms.