Chrissy Suttles is an award-winning reporter who has covered Southwestern Pennsylvania for nearly a decade, with an emphasis on business, energy and environment. She joined Axios Pittsburgh in January 2025 and covers a broad range of topics. Before joining Axios, she previously reported for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Wyoming Business Journal in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and later for the Beaver County Times just north of Pittsburgh alongside other USA Today papers.

Ryan Deto is a veteran Pittsburgh journalist with over a decade of experience covering government, politics, food, business and more. He joined Axios Pittsburgh after serving as head political reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and previously as managing editor at Pittsburgh City Paper. A Bay Area, California native, he earned journalism degrees from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Oregon, and has proudly called Pittsburgh home ever since.

Alexis Johnson is a Social Producer at Axios. She's a Pittsburgh native who returned to the city after spending four years in Washington, D.C., as an Emmy-winning correspondent for Vice News. Before joining Vice, she worked at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a digital news editor and reporter. Alexis has grown the Axios Pittsburgh social audience by 25k followers across platforms in the first year and will be helping to launch social across Axios local markets. Alexis studied communications media at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before going on to earn a master's in media studies and production at Temple University in Philadelphia.