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WBGO's The Checkout and The Jazz Gallery Launch New Conversation Series

WBGO Awards:

2020

• WBGO Community Engagement Reporter, Brit Harley, named John S. Knight Community Impact Fellow
• WBGO News Team wins five PMJA awards: 1st Place - Continuing Coverage -  WBGO - "Newark Lead Pipe Water Crisis and Beyond"  -  (WBGO News Team), 1st Place - Arts Feature -  WBGO - "Brooklyn-born Irving Burgie's Long Battle for Recognition"  (Reporter - Jon Kalish), 1st Place - Spot News - WBGO - "Last Lindy Hopper Norma Miller Says Goodbye" (Reporter -Doug Doyle, with audio from Gary Walker's interview with Norma Miller), 2nd Place -  Audience Engagement Program - WBGO - "Newark Today Explores the Impact of SOTA" (Host - Michael Hill, Producer Alexandra Hill), 2nd Place - Newscast - WBGO - "WBGO News Update with Doug Doyle"  (WBGO News Team)
• Jazz Journalists Award: Blog of the Year, WBGO.org
• Jazz Journalists Award: Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing presented in 2020, Nate Chinen
• National Endowment for the Arts names founding WBGO staff member Dorthaan Kirk a 2020 NEA Jazz Master, Jazz Advocate.
• NAACP's Mid Manhattan Branch honored Rob Crocker with their Roy Wilkins Black History Month Award in 2020, in honor of being the longest running jazz DJ in NYC radio history

​2019

• 2019 JazzTimes Critics' Poll - The Checkout won Best Podcast
• 2019 Jazz Times Readers Poll - Jazz Night in America won Best Syndicated Radio Program
• Sheila Anderson was named one of three Dan Morgenstern Distinguished Fellows by the Institute of Jazz Studies - Rutgers, Newark, October, 2019
• WBGO News captures three awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2019 
• Jazz Journalists Award: Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing presented in 2019, Nate Chinen

​2018

• 2018 Webby Award for Film & Video: Music, "Jazz is the Mother of Hip-Hop" Jazz Night in America
• Jazz Journalists Award: Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing presented in 2018, Nate Chinen
• JazzTimes 2018 Critics Poll, Best Podcast - The Checkout, with host Simon Rentner
• JazzTimes 2018 Critics Poll, Best Syndicated Radio Program  - Jazz Night in America
• 2018 PRNDI Awards WBGO Reporter Ang Santos won second place for Sports Report

2017

• JazzTimes 2017 Critics Poll, Best Podcast - The Checkout, with host Simon Rentner
• JazzTimes 2017 Critics Poll, Best Syndicated Radio Program  - Jazz Night in America
• 2017 PRNDI Awards WBGO News won two awards: Pulibc Affairs (WBGO Journal, first place) and Best Investigative Feature (second place)
• Montreal International  Jazz Festival's Bruce Lundvall Award 2017 - Michael Bourne
• New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists, place awards for WBGO News in four categories: Breaking News, Enterprise, Multi-Media Package and Podcast

2016

• JazzTimes 2016 Critics Poll, Best Podcast - The Checkout, with host Simon Rentner
• JazzTimes 2016 Critics Poll, Best Syndicated Radio Program  - Jazz Night in America
• 2016 PRNDI Awards WBGO News won eleven awards

Leadership Transition:

WBGO Welcomes Media Leader Steve Williams as New President & CEO November 2020

Statement from Interim President & CEO Bob Ottenhoff January 2020

WBGO mentioned in the news...

• The Bay State Banner, Rhonda Hamilton: a voice that brings jazz to life, February 18, 2021
• WNYC, The Takeaway, WBGO's Bobby Sanabria interviewed for The Life and Legacy of Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, February 17, 2021
• New Jersey Stage, Winners of Spring 2021 New Jersey Film Festival Announced (The WBGO Story - Bright Moments from Newark to the World won best documentary), February 2021
• New Jersey Law Journal, Anthony Gartmond Embraces New Title: Artist, February 15, 2021
• Times Square Chronicles, The Gorious Corner, RIP Chick Corea, February 13, 2021
• NPR, New Music Friday: Top 8 Albums Out on Feb. 12 (Nate Chinen contributor), February 12, 2021
• Fox 5 Las Vegas, LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Award Winners, February 8, 2021
• The Jerusalem Post, LetterOne Rising Star Jazz Awards Winners, February 7, 2021
• Baristanet, Profile: Victoria Gallucci, February 5, 2021
• Sonoma State Star, Green Music Center kicks off the Spring Season, February 2, 2021
• RadioINK, Jazz Media Lab Awards Five, January 28, 2021New Jersey Stage, WBGO to Receive Grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, January 28, 2021
• New Jersey Monthly, Celebrating Four Decades of WBGO, February 2021
• Discover Jersey Arts, The WBGO Story: Bright Moments from Newark to the World, January 27, 2021
• New Jersey Stage, The WBGO Story: Bright Moments from Newark to the World, January 27, 2021
• NJArts.net, Documentary to Be Shown at Virtual NJ Film Fest Tells the Four-Decade Story of WBGO, January 26, 2021
• New Jersey Stage, Chris Daniel's The WBGO Story Opens the Spring 2021 New Jersey Jazz Festival, January 26, 2021
• Asbury Park Press, Jazz Station WBGO...Celebrated in New Documentary, January 26, 2021
• Yahoo Finance, Jamie Cullum to Host Fourth Edition of the Presigious LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Award, January 25, 2021
• NJ.com, New CEO Takes the Reins Amid Racial Reckoning at Historic Jazz Station, January 25, 2021
• WVXU, Cincinnati Native Steve Williams Named CEO for New Jersey's WBGO-FM, November 4, 2020
• All Access, Steve Williams Named Pres./CEO at WBGO, November 3, 2020
• Current, WBGO Hires Steve Williams as CEO, November 2, 2020
• ROI-NJ Williams Named CEO of WBGO, Newark's Iconic Jazz Station, November 2, 2020
• WBUR DJ Sessions with Keanna Faircloth, September 9, 2020
• Irish Echo Arts & Leisure World Is Celebrating Bird at 100, September 1, 2020
• iSpySoul.com interview with Afternoon Jazz host Keanna Faircloth, August 31, 2020
• Amsterdam News 2020 NEA Jazz Masters, Allan Harris Live, August 27, 2020
• DownTime with Riverview Jazz https://youtu.be/JXMNBTzAh-E" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Interview with Lezlie Harrison, August 19, 2020
• Grown Folks Music Interview with Monifa Brown, August, 2020
• New York Times How a Teacher Who Moolights Delivering Beer Spends His Sundays, May 22, 2020
• New York Times Wait...What's Getting You Through?, May 13, 2020
• Southern Living New Orleans Musicians Honor Those Lost with Socially Distanced Funeral Song, April 28, 2020
• The Wall Street Journal Listening at a Different Wavelength, April 21, 2020
• The Guardian 10 of the Best Music Stations in the World, April 17, 2020
• Bon Appetit 17 Ways to Feel Good at Home Right Now. March 18, 2020
• Vault How to Reduce Coronavirus Anxiety While Working from Home, March 16, 2020
• Downbeat magazine highlights WBGO's 40th anniversary gala, February 2020
• Gothamist cites Ask Governor Murphy in NJ Says No to NYC Program that Relocates Homeless to NJ January 16, 2020
• Jersey Jazz highlights Brian Delp as new host of Midday Jazz, September, 2019
• New York's Jazz Stations Goes Beyond the Airwaves, Amsterdam News, April 12 ,2018
• WFMT Radio Network Partners Internationally to Broadcast Chicago Jazz Festival, Current,  August 28, 2017
• Broadway World show announcements for NJCU and Raisin in the Sun, August 2017
• Montclair Jazz Fest Packs the Park, NorthJersey.com, August 15, 2017
• Talking Schop! by Kysha Harris Amsterdam News, August 3, 2017
• NJPAC to Host First NJ Gubernatorial Debate, July 31, 2017
• 5 Reasons to Be Excited About the State of Jazz in 2017 in Observer, April 27, 2017
• Chuck Stewart Obituary in New York Times, January 27, 2017
• TD James Moody Jazz Festival review on JazzPolice.com, January 25, 2017
• WBGO's Lezlie Harrison interviewed in the Bangkok Post, January 20, 2017

WBGO Honored for 40th Anniversary:

• Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival saluted WBGO's 40th at their annual event on August 17, 2019
• BRIC recognized WBGO's 40th anniversary during their Celebrate Brooklyn Festival on August 9, 2019
• Montreal Jazz Festival hosted event featuring WBGO's Michael Bourne and festival founder André Menard celebrating WBGO's 40th during their festival on July 4, 2019
• City Parks Foundation recognized WBGO's 40th during their Summer Stage series on June 15, 2019 with both a member event and a preconcert panel moderated by WBGO's Nate Chinen
• New Jersey Youth Symphony named WBGO an honoree at our joint 40th anniversary event at NJPAC on May 19, 2019
• New Jersey Jazz Society honors WBGO as their Jazz Advocate at the 50th Annviersary Pee Wee Russell Stomp on April 7, 2019
• City of Newark presents 40th Anniversary Proclamation to WBGO at anniversary celebration at Gateway 4 in Newark on April 3, 2019
• New Jersey City University Alumni Big Band Concert saluted WBGO's 40th at their performance on the pier in Jersey City on September 14, 2018

Ask Governor Murphy Returns to WBGO July 16, 7pm - RELEASE

WBGO’s Champions of Jazz Gala Celebrated Ray Charles and Honored Ron Delsener and Donald Fagen
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WBGO is the Proud Media Sponsor of THE JAZZ EPISTLES: ABDULLAH IBRAHIM & EKAYA AND HUGH MASEKELA IN CONCERT PERFORMING TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 56 YEARS. This Triumphant Project Makes Its North American Debut at Town Hall on South Africa Freedom Day, April 27, 2017. South African Jazz Pioneers Reunite in Freedom to Tell the Almost Forgotten Story of South African's Most Important Jazz Collective.
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WBGO to Host Historic Live Call-In Radio Show With Four Newark Mayors - February 2017 RELEASE

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WBGO Announces New Digital Initiatives - January 2016

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• New Jersey Jazz Society honors WBGO as their Jazz Advocate at the 50th Annviersary Pee Wee Russell Stomp on April 7, 2019