Danyell Irby

Danyell Irby was named Chief of Content at Baltimore Public Media in April 2025 . This new role for Irby reflects President and General Manager Craig Swagler’s FY25 strategic priorities focused on alignment, partnerships, and revenue growth to support Baltimore Public Media’s mission. Most recently, Irby served as Executive Director of News at WYPR, joining the organization’s leadership team in April 2020. She remains a leader in WYPR’s newsroom collaboration with our reporting partner, The Baltimore Banner.

Ms. Irby earned her master’s degree from The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park 2001, while working as the first full-time overnight producer on NPR’s news desk.

Ms. Irby rose through the ranks of NPR in numerous roles including anchor, editor and newscast senior supervising producer. In her role as Supervising Editor of the Local Impact of War Project, she traveled to numerous NPR member station newsrooms across the country mentoring and editing reporters covering the impact of multiple deployments on National Guard Troops and their families. Ms. Irby spent several years on NPR’s national desk as a Supervising Editor for the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Regions. Prior to taking on the leadership role at WYPR, she worked in television and at American Public Media as a senior editor for their flagship program, Marketplace.

Ms. Irby continues mentoring journalism students and has received numerous industry recognitions and awards for her work.