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 the June 27 WBGO Journal, we get a preview of William Paterson University's Summer Jazz Room Series and the latest on the efforts to close Delaney Hall -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with legendary festival producer Danny Melnick about the upcoming Saratoga Jazz Festival -
On the June 20 WBGO Journal, producer Danny Melnick previews the 49th Saratoga Jazz Festival and we take you to the parade for NBA Champion Knicks -
The next edition of WBGO's "Newark Today" show is tonight (June 18) at 8pm -
Legendary Nebraska and Willingboro H.S. wrestling legend James Green joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about his career and FINAL X in Newark -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of South African pianist and NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim -
On the June 13 WBGO Journal, the FIFA World Cup's impact on youth soccer, a look back at the Bernie Goetz trial and a chat with champion wrestler James Green -
On the June 6 WBGO Journal, we have interviews with poet Kevin Powell, members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the host of the Ganja Granny podcast -
WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on Karen Michel's "Ganja Granny" podcast -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Dirty Dozen Brass Band members Roger Lewis and Traverri Huff-Boone about the legendary band's performances at the Blue Note Jazz Festival June 8-10
