Doug Doyle
Director of News and Editorial Content, Morning News Anchor, Host of WBGO Journal and Host of SportsJam with Doug Doyle and The Art of the Story podcastsDoug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
The Pennsylvania State University graduate is one of the most decorated news reporters in New Jersey radio history. WBGO's popular sports podcast SportsJam with Doug Doyle has won numerous national and state awards for best interview and sports coverage. SportsJam recently won PMJA's 2025 Best Interview/Podcast program. SportsJam has also won Best Podcast from the NJSPJ in 2024 and 2025.
For more than 27 years, Doug really enjoys being the morning news anchor for Gary Walker's "Daybreak" on WBGO. Doug began his radio career at WMJY in Long Branch, NJ where he eventually became news director at the station known as Y107 at that time. The next stop was WOBM-FM in Toms River, NJ. Doug spent ten years there, seven of them as news director.
The Delmont, Pennsylvania native has also anchored sportscasts for WBBR, 1010 WINS and WABC.
Doyle hosts three podcasts for WBGO: WBGO Journal The Art of the Story SportsJam with Doug Doyle
Doug has taught radio production, writing, announcing, podcasting and sports classes at Bloomfield College, Rutgers-Newark University, Brookdale Community College, Ocean County College and Burlington County College.
He is an instrumental part of the Write On Sports program. In 2022, Doyle received the Literacy Champion Award from WOS.
Doug is a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a professional music fraternity.
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On this episode of The Art of the Story, pianist Lafayette Harris, Jr. talks to WBGO's Gary Walker about his mentor Max Roach -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, Tony Bennett chats with WBGO's Michael Bourne about "Perfectly Frank" -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Video Music Box founder Ralph McDaniels talks about the similar beginnings of Jazz and Hip-Hop -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Dave Popkin speaks with blues guitarist and singer Solomon Hicks -
On the February 7 WBGO Journal, we get the rundown on the 46th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series in Newark and Harlan Jacobson looks at some great 2025 films you may have missed -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, we focus on a 2018 Audie Cornish interview with Ravi Coltrane and Christian McBride about the release of John Coltrane's Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album that year. -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, legendary sportswriter Jerry Izenberg talks about his new novel "Damn You, Josh Gibson: A Ghost Story" -
Legendary Star-Ledger sportswriter and author Jerry Izenberg returns to SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about his new book "Damn You, Josh Gibson: A Ghost Story" as well as his thoughts on Super Bowl LX
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On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Gary Walker chats with saxophonist and composer Noah Preminger -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Michael Dorf, producer of the Music Of concert series and the founder of City Winery
