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Award-winning journalist Patti Neighmond is NPR's health policy correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.

Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project.

Ashley Westerman is a producer who occasionally directs the show. Since joining the staff in June 2015, she has produced a variety of stories including a coal mine closing near her hometown, the 2016 Republican National Convention, and the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh. She is also an occasional reporter for Morning Edition, and NPR.org, where she has contributed reports on both domestic and international news.

Tyler Sutton joined WNIJ/WNIU in June 2025, bringing years of experience as a fundraising professional, music educator, and arts advocate. A passionate supporter of public radio, he believes in its role as a free, trusted source of news and conversation and its power to build community. His favorite programs include Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and 1A. Outside the station, Tyler enjoys building furniture in his woodshop, video games, and spending time with his wife and kids.

Doug coordinates the Northern Illinois Radio Information Service (NIRIS) activities at our DeKalb studios. If you've ever been a NIRIS volunteer in DeKalb, you've worked with Doug. When he's not buried beneath stacks of newspapers in the NIRIS studio, you can probably find Doug preparing lunch (or breakfast, or dinner) in the break room.

Guy Stephens produces news stories for the station, and coordinates our online events calendar, PSAs and Arts Calendar announcements. In each of these ways, Guy helps keep our listening community informed about what's going on, whether on a national or local level. Guy's degrees are in music, and he spent a number of years as a classical host on WNIU. In fact, after nearly 20 years with Northern Public Radio, the best description of his job may be "other duties as required."

David Tallacksen has been listening to radio since his early years when he'd tune in to crackly late-night AM talk shows on his GE radio alarm clock long after he'd gone to bed and should have been sleeping. He became a public radio listener in high school when he discovered Car Talk and NPR's newsmagazines on WNIJ, and later went on to work at WNIU while a student at NIU.

Jenna Dooley has spent her professional career in public radio. She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois - Springfield. She returned to Northern Public Radio in DeKalb after several years hosting Morning Edition at WUIS-FM in Springfield. She is a former "Newsfinder of the Year" from the Illinois Associated Press and recipient of NIU's Donald R. Grubb Journalism Alumni Award. She is an active member of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association and an adjunct instructor at NIU.

Carlos Loera is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in World Languages and Cultures with an emphasis in Spanish and Hispanic Studies and a minor in Latino/Latin American studies. He supports WNIJ’s efforts to engage northern Illinois’ Spanish-speaking communities through bilingual reporting, publishing and engagement. He is responsible for developing and managing Spanish-language content across broadcast, digital and social platforms. He is from Elgin, Illinois.

Carlos Loera es un graduado de Northern Illinois University con una licienciatura en Lenguas y Culturas del Mundo, con especialización en español y estudios hispánicos y especialización secundaria en estudios latinos/latinoamericanos. Apoya los esfuerzos de WNIJ para involucrar las comunidades hispanohablantes del norte de Illinois a través de reportajes, publicaciones y actividades bilingües. Carlos es responsable del desarrollo y gestión de contenido en español para plataformas de transmisión, digitales y redes sociales. Es originalmente de Elgin, Illinois.

Jason is WNIJ's host of "Morning Edition".