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 this episode of The Art of the Story, pianist Monty Alexander shares his boxing stories -
On the December 13 one-hour special edition of the WBGO Journal, we hear from Dave McMurray, Wycliffe Gordon and the creators of 'We Sing' -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, RENT star Anthony Rapp came to the WBGO Studios in 2009 to talk about being a part of the smash-hit musical. -
WBGO's fund drive "Gift the Gift of WBGO" runs through 2025 -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, host Doug Doyle talks about the Louis Armstrong House Museum's Corona Collection -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, we celebrate Rhonda Hamilton who is the recipient of the 2026 A.B. Spelman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy -
Next League co-founder and CEO Dave Nugent joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about the importance of sports technology -
The next edition of Ask Governor Murphy streams here on December 10 at 7pm -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with saxophonists Melissa Aldana and Walter Smith III about the 13th annual Coltrane Festival at Smoke Jazz Club -
On the December 6 WBGO Journal, an in-depth conversation with Mercedes Ellington and a look back at the life of David Lerner
