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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Moore unveiled three bills he’ll seek regarding public safety on Tuesday. -
$15 an hour wage goes into effect a year early in Maryland -
Team will stay at stadium for next 15 years, with more possible if it reaches development deals -
Governor unveiled his first two bills Wednesday for the upcoming session of the Maryland General Assembly. -
Jurors reached verdict after a little less than a day of deliberations. -
Pedro Argote was accused of shooting Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson to death just hours after the judge ruled against him in a divorce hearing. -
The teen, now 16, shot Timothy Reynolds in July 2022 after Reynolds approached him and other squeegee workers wielding a baseball bat. -
Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot in the driveway of his Hagerstown home. -
Both teams feature strong offenses in what looks like a very evenly matched series. -
Classes for the rest of the week have also been canceled following shooting that wounded five, including four students
