Matt Bush
News DirectorMatt Bush spent 14 years in public radio prior to coming to WYPR as news director in October 2022. From 2008 to 2016, he worked at Washington D.C.’s NPR affiliate, WAMU, where he was the station’s Maryland reporter. He covered the Maryland General Assembly for six years (alongside several WYPR reporters in the statehouse radio bullpen) as well as both Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties.
From 2016 until March 2022, Matt was the news director at Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) in Asheville, North Carolina. He and his team won 21 Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas awards in his last four years at BPR. Those were the station’s first such awards in its more than 40-year history. He also produced the station’s three podcasts, The Porch, The Waters & Harvey Show and Going Deep: Sports in the 21st Century. @MattBushMD
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City voters have a wide variety of questions to decide this fall. -
County voters will decide 12 ballot questions this fall, with hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on the line. -
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Changes to juvenile crime laws, protections for gender-affirming care, and new requirements for motorcycle and horse riders become law on October 1. -
Orioles return to the MLB playoffs Tuesday for the second straight year. -
Six construction workers died after the nearly 50-year-old bridge collapsed in seconds after being struck by a cargo ship that had lost power. -
Baltimore City Council is set to hold hearings to examine work conditions at the Department of Public Works following the death of employee Ronald Silver ll on August 2, 2024. -
Which vice-presidential candidate appeals more to rural voters? Cory Vaillancourt, the politics editor for Smoky Mountain News, joins Midday from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to give us more insight. -
Maryland Democrats praise Biden, throw their support behind Harris. -
Liquor store deliveries, a paint recycling program and a ban on legacy preference in college admissions go into effect July 1.
