Chris Chandler anchors afternoon drive and "Atlanta's Evening News" on NewsTalk WSB.  He was the 2011 Associated Press Broadcasters Association "Best Anchor-Reporter" and anchored the winning 2010 entries for Breaking News and Staff Coverage.  He joined the station in November 2009.

Prior to that, Chandler was an anchor/editor at CNN Radio for three and a half years.  He anchored coverage of the 2006 Virginia Tech shootings; reported from hurricane zones in Texas and Louisiana; and contributed to the network's Peabody-award winning coverage of the 2008 election campaign, anchoring debate and primary nights.

Before CNN Radio, Chandler worked at WHAS in Louisville, Ky, where he served as Senior Reporter for the market's #1-rated afternoon radio show. His work included live reports from Jerusalem about the Mideast crisis and from ground zero following the September 11th terrorist attacks.   Chandler won two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his reports from the Middle East. He also received an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Outstanding Spot News" in 2004 and was the 2001 "Best Radio Reporter". 

Prior to WHAS, Chandler worked as a reporter-anchor for the Bristol Broadcasting station group in Paducah, Ky. He was one of the first reporters to break the news of the Dec. 1, 1997, shooting at Heath High School in West Paducah which left three students dead and five more wounded.

Chandler graduated from the University of Illinois.