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, singer Vanisha Gould speaks to WBGO's Doug Doyle at the 2024 PIJF -
On this edition of The Art of Story, best-selling author and musician James McBride chats with host Gary Walker in 2003 about his search for an identity -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, jazz pianist and educator Howie Alexander chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle at the 2024 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Singer Ekep Nkewelle gets ready fore tribute to Ella Fitzgerald at upcoming Hudson Jazz Festival -
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On the September 28 special one-hour edition of the WBGO Journal, we have interviews with Herbie Hancock, Dan Pugach and Maysa -
On this episode of the The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, iconic pianist and composer Herbie Hancock talks to WBGO host Michael Bourne in 2003 about his musical choices over his five-decade career -
Singer and actress Addie Morales stars in Two River Theater's production of American Mariachi -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, legendary saxophonist Benny Golson spoke in 1998 with WBGO host Rhonda Hamilton -
