Baltimore Public Media promotes Danyell Irby to Chief of Content

Baltimore Public Media has named Danyell Irby as the public broadcaster’s Chief of Content. Irby, who joined the organization in 2020 as Executive Director of News at WYPR, brings over 25 years of experience in public and commercial radio.

According to Radio Ink, her career includes “editorial and leadership roles at NPR, where she served as anchor, editor, and Senior Supervising Producer of Newscasts. She also led national coverage as Supervising Editor for NPR’s Local Impact of War project, working directly with member station newsrooms across the country. In addition to her time at NPR, Irby contributed to American Public Media’s Marketplace and worked in television before assuming leadership at WYPR.

“Under Irby’s direction, Baltimore Public Media aims to unify the creative energy of WTMD’s music and arts programming with WYPR’s established news and public affairs service, building a more strategic and integrated presence across the Baltimore region.”

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