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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Just hours after the General Assembly adjourned for the year and days after the release of a report graphically detailing abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Governor signs repeal of statute of limitations. -
On the day of another deadly mass shooting in the U.S., Maryland lawmakers finished passing a series of gun measures supporters call the strictest in the nation. -
See what lawmakers passed during their 90-day session, and what Governor Wes Moore has signed into law -
Gov. Wes Moore’s first spending plan essentially ends one of his predecessor’s biggest legislative victories. -
Lawmakers gave initial approval to the bill Wednesday altering reporting requirements which supporters say give agency to gay and trans students. -
Almost five years to the day of her death, lawmakers pass bill named for St. Mary’s County teen shot to death at her high school. -
Initial approval given to allowing child sex abuse victims to file a lawsuit at any age as Maryland awaits public release of report into decades of abuse within the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. -
Maryland would join three other states including neighboring Virginia in passing Donna’s Law, a suicide prevention bill -
Maryland has seen applications for concealed carry permits skyrocket since U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year struck down New York’s higher standard to get one, which was similar to Maryland’s.
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If approved by both chambers and Gov. Wes Moore, Maryland voters would decide on state constitutional amendment guaranteeing ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ next year.
