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WYPR News best of 2025

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Matt Bush
Published December 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM EST
Inner Harbor of Baltimore
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Inner Harbor of Baltimore

The WYPR news team had a banner year, winning awards in several different contests. As 2025 closes out, our reporters picked a few of their favorites that they worked on this year.

Wambui Kamau

Maryland sees big jump in 'restrictive housing' in six years, report finds

Scott Maucione

NTSB says electrical breaker failure caused blackout on ship that hit Key Bridge

John Lee

Oh "gnome" he didn't! A walk to Baltimore County's Gnome Hill

Sarah Petrowich

Early redistricting in Maryland struggles to gain support in both parties
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Matt Bush
Matt 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.
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