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 December 6 WBGO Journal, an in-depth conversation with Mercedes Ellington and a look back at the life of David Lerner -
WBGO's Jon Kalish remembers the late radio engineer and Tekserve co-founder David Lerner -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Bob James talks to WBGO's Doug Doyle about Sarah Vaughan and Hip-Hop sampling -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, host Doug Doyle reports on the career of the late guitarist and songwriter Steve Cropper who spoke with WBGO's Gary Walker in 2024 -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Rachael Price and Vilray talk about how they love making music together -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Mercedes Ellington talks about "Such Sweet Thunder", a special concert celebration at Symphony Space on Dec. 12 -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Grammy-nominated saxophonist Gerald Albright talks about his big break with 2026 NEA Jazz Master Patrice Rushen -
On the November 29 WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle has an in-depth chat with Giants legendary linebacker and captain Harry Carson about his amazing career and health battles -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Andrew Duncanson -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, musician and author James McBride chats with WBGO's Gary Walker in 2003
