Broadcast Veterans Join WAMU 88.5 News Team
WAMU 88.5 welcomes three broadcast veterans to its award-winning local and regional news staff. Meymo Lyons brings 22 years of experience in broadcast news to her position as producer/assignments editor. Pat Brogan, with more than 10 years of experience in radio news, joins WAMU 88.5 as a news anchor/host. Deborah Bolling brings a varied background in journalism, film and television production to her post as news intern supervisor and senior coordinator of the station's "Youth Voices" high school journalism project.
"Meymo, Pat and Deborah will help us increase the quality and breadth of our local and regional news coverage, as well as our ability to train the current and future generation of public radio journalists," said WAMU 88.5 News Director Jim Asendio.
Meymo (MEM'-oh) Lyons served 8 years as news director, anchor, and reporter at radio station WITL in Lansing Mich., where she earned The Associated Press "Top Ten Contributor" award for seven consecutive years. The station earned more than 40 awards from the AP and Michigan Association of Broadcasters under Lyons' leadership. Most recently, Lyons was the assignments editor at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., and before that the managing editor at WLIX-TV in Lansing, Mich. Lyons served 13 years as a member of The Associated Press Association of Michigan, and was president of the board for five years.
Pat Brogan joins the WAMU 88.5 news team after four years as a managing editor at WMAL-AM, and a brief stint at WTOP-FM, in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Brogan served nine years as a news anchor and reporter at WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has received multiple AP awards, and has covered local sports, including the Redskins, Nationals and Wizards.
Deborah Bolling, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was a suburban staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and has won several "Excellence in Journalism" awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Bolling has been a freelance contributor to Newsday and The New York Times, a guest commentator on WAMU 88.5 since March, and was previously a reporter and commentator for Talk Radio 702 in South Africa. She has also produced on-air promos for HBO, Showtime, and MTV.
Additionally, Jessica Golloher, a part-time reporter, assignment editor and news producer has been promoted to a full-time reporter. Her primary responsibility will be to file reports for the station's hourly newscasts. Golloher came to WAMU 88.5 in 2006 from Boston, where she was a fill-in news bureau chief, news anchor, and reporter for Westwood One/Metro Networks, and a producer and news writer for WBUR Radio. She also files reports for National Public Radio.
American University's radio station since 1961, WAMU 88.5 is the leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the greater Washington, D.C., area, with more than 590,000 listeners in the region. WAMU 88.5 is "your NPR news station in the nation's capital."
