 Regular panelists included Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS News, Richard Pérez-Peña of "The New York Times", Jay Gallagher of Gannett, Fredric U. Dicker of the "New York Post", Elizabeth Benjamin of "Times Union", Yancey Roy of Gannett News Service, Erik Kriss of "The Post-Standard", Jon Sorensen of "The New York Daily News", and Eric Durr of the "Watertown Daily Times".After Carrese's departure to start a political satire troupe called Only in New York, Jim Brennan, a longtime anchor on Albany's ABC affiliate WTEN, took over the show and remained at the helm until 2007.In the spring of that year, Susan Arbetter, formerly the news director at WAMC became the host and producer of "NYWIR".