Doug Doyle
News Director, Morning News Anchor, Co-Host of WBGO Journal & Host of SportsJamDoug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 200 awards from organizations like PRNDI, 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. You can hear all the shows at wbgo.org/sportsjam, on iTunes and NPR's list of podcasts.
For more than 22 years, Doug really enjoys his role as a side-kick for Gary Walker's morning show on WBGO. Gary and Doug's rapport and mix of great music, information and humor has attracted many new listeners to the station through the years. Doug began his radio career at WMJY in Long Branch, New Jersey where he eventually became news director at the station known as Y107 at that time. The next stop was WOBM-FM in Toms River, New Jersey. 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.
Doug has taught radio production, writing, announcing 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 the area being a guest speaker at many of the summer camps. Doyle is a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a professional music fraternity. Doug's daughter Casey is currently a special education teacher in the Neptune School District. She spent her first two years as an educator teaching inclusive fifth grade math and science at Oliver Street School in Newark.
Doug and his friends are also part of a band that performs at various charity events in the area like "Rock Hunger" in Nutley, NJ and "Newark Porchfest".
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Join us tonight (Oct. 21) at 8 p.m. for a special edition of WBGO's Newark Today, in collaboration with The New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists, for their Special series titled "The Press The Police and The Public."
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WBGO News contributor and Chief Leader reporter Bob Hennelly chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about his new book "Stuck Nation" -
3-time Stanley Cup champ, Former NJ Devils defenseman and current MSG Networks broadcaster Ken Daneyko joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about the upcoming NHL season and his 40-year career with the Devils organization
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WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Prudential Financial's Heather Cestaro about the Prudential Emerging Visionaries campaign for young people ages 14 to 18
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Larry Hamm, the chairman of the People's Organization for Progress chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about "The Long March For Justice". The march is a nine-day 67-mile trek from Montclair To Trenton for Police Accountability, Social Justice, And Economic Progress.
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WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on a unique breed of wedding caterers
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"State of Affairs" host Steve Adubato chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about the upcoming public broadcasting special featuring separate interviews with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli
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Acclaimed Newsday NFL writer Bob Glauber joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about his new book "The Forgotten First"
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WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on a weeklong on-line international gathering examines the legacy of Eugenics
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The first of two New Jersey Gubernatorial debates will begin at 7pm Tuesday, September 28 at NJPAC in Newark.
