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 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 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. In 2023 competitions SportsJam received Best Interview podcast from PMJA and Best Podcast from the NJSPJ.
For more than 25 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.
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 the area being a guest speaker at many of the summer camps. In 2022, Doyle received the Literacy Champion Award from WOS.
Doug 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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On this episode of The Art of the Story, we focus on the 2025 International Jazz Day Concert in Abu Dhabi -
Andy Bey died on April 26, 2025 at the age of 85. -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, legendary bassist Carol Kaye will be inducted into the Rock and Roll HOF in November -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO Dave Popkin chats with the winners of the 2025 North Jersey Blues Society's Blues Challenge -
The 2025 edition of International Jazz Day will be celebrated in more than 190 countries on April 30, with Abu Dhabi selected as the Global Host City. You can watch the concert live here @wbgo.org beginning at 4pm ET -
WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on a Brooklyn synagogue that has been home for virtuosic cantors -
On the April 26 edition of the WBGO Journal, an update of the wildfire in Southern Ocean County, a look at a special Brooklyn synagogue a preview of of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's upcoming NJPAC performances -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer and writer Melissa Errico about her special May 7 concert The Story of a Rose: A Musicial Reverie on The Great War -
On The Art of the Story, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's legacy on display at the upcoming NJPAC performances -
On this edition of SportsJam with Doug Doyle, Dr. Keith Kirkland talks about the inaugural class of the Essex County College Wolverines Athletics Hall of Fame
