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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Governor Wes Moore released $69M withheld by outgoing Governor Larry Hogan, including funds for abortion care training on his first day in office. -
WYPR and The Baltimore Banner are collaborating for coverage of the inauguration of Governor Wes Moore and Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller. -
Outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan is a Republican who arrived in Annapolis, Maryland as a relatively unknown politician and now in 2023 leaves eight years later as a national political figure. -
The saga of Baltimore’s canceled and then uncanceled MLK Day parade continues with Mayor Brandon Scott’s vow to cut funding to city’s office of Promotion and the Arts if its CEO isn’t removed -
Former Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown is an Iraq War veteran, previously both a state delegate and Congressman but is also the first African-American to hold the post of Maryland Attorney General.
