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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The pioneering "She Got Game" podcaster Tandaleya Wilder joins Matt Bush to discuss her two-decade career covering womens' sports, and her Sunday special on WYPR. -
The Banner's Orioles columnist John Meoli joins Matt Bush to discuss the O's hopeful new lineup, their performance at Florida camp, and why many O's are playing in this year's World Baseball Classic. -
Matt Bush talks about the city's Opioid Restitution Fund grants with WYPR health reporter Scott Maucione, and with one of the grantees: Dr. Danielle Friedman Nestadt, director of Check-It, a drug safety program. -
Tom Hall and News Director Matt Bush anchor coverage of Gov. Moore's State of the State address, and WYPR's Maryland State Government & Politics Reporter Sarah Petrowich reports from Annapolis. -
WYPR's State House reporter Sarah Petrowich discusses Governor Moore's call for a dynamic pricing ban, how the practice impacts Maryland consumers and what state lawmakers are likely to do about it -
Baltimore Banner business reporter Bria Overs explains BGE's latest utility rate increases, and what's still in store for Baltimore customers. -
We ask a National Weather Service meteorologist and officials at BWI and the State Highway Administration to size up the weekend's looming winter storm and how travelers will be affected by the potentially dangerous arctic blast. -
Guest host Matt Bush talks with local reporters about the competitive County Executive races shaping up in three Maryland counties: Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel. -
WYPR's Scout Maucione was at a rally of Maryland residents opposing US attacks on Venezuela. -
WYPR's Nathanael Miller has the latest on plans for massive data centers in Western Maryland.
