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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Catch the New Loves Sly! Bryant Park Picnic Peformance here. -
WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with Marcus Miller before his set at the 2025 DC JazzFest -
WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with José Luiz Martins and Alex Hamburger after their band won the 2025 DC JazzPrix competition -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, acclaimed actor, singer and voiceover artist Keith David talks about his new jazz album -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, singer-songwriter Lalah Hathaway chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about performing live at the DC JazzFest -
On this episode of SportsJam with Doug Doyle, Director David Altrogge and Roberto Clemente Jr. on the new doc "CLEMENTE" -
Photographers Jonathan Chimene, Bill Daughtry and Mark Sheldon share their best shots of the 2025 Newport Jazz Festival -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Lalah Hathaway in advance of her concert at the 2025 DC JazzFest -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, we get a preview of the new documentary "CLEMENTE" from filmmaker David Altrogge -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, MSNBC host and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart talks about his new memoir
