Joe Pugh
Host & Producer (Nanaimo) / Editor — Since fall 2023, Joe Pugh has hosted and produced Midcoast Morning, our newsroom’s current affairs program. Since 2026, Pugh took on the additional role of editor in our newsroom. Pugh has also hosted and produced People First Radio, a program in partnership with the Vancouver Island Mental Health Society since 2022.
Joe attended the University of Guelph for a Bachelors in Arts and Science, and later Humber College for a graduate certificate in radio and media production. In the fall of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic Joe Pugh applied to volunteer at our station, and in 2021 joined the station as summer staff through Canada Summer Jobs.
Regular Office Hours:
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Contact:
joe.pugh@chly.ca
news@chly.ca
Recent Stories
The Woodstove Festival is set to take over Cumberland this weekend as it marks its tenth anniversary.
The arts and culture festival aims to bring together local artists and community at a time when the days are getting darker and folks are getting ready to hunker down for the upcoming winter.
Dr. Lawrence Winkler has consolidated more than eight acres of land close to the shoreline of Westwood Lake with plans to create a Japanese Garden for the public to enjoy.
Nervous energy filled the Vancouver Island Conference Centre Saturday night as Nanaimo's local election results were revealed.
Ahead of local elections in the City of Nanaimo, questionable polls have been circulating online on social media like Facebook drawing the criticism of community members…
Ahead of the October 17th local elections in British Columbia, Midcoast Morning spoke with each of the four candidates running for Mayor of Nanaimo. In this episode, VIU nursing instructor Sarah Lovegrove and incumbent mayor Leonard Krog.
Ahead of the October 17th local elections in British Columbia, Midcoast Morning spoke with each of the four candidates running for Mayor of Nanaimo. In this episode, former financial planner Anne Marie Dryden and multi time mayor and council candidate Brunie Brunie.
Originally planned by the Fair Care Alliance as a forum framed around local elections, a snap provincial election reframed much of the conversation had at the September 24th Fair Care For All Public Health Forum…
Plans are in the works to decide how to best add a new parcel of land to Westwood Lake Park. Last week the City of Nanaimo announced the purchase of 2.85 acres of land at 2367 Arbot Road for $2.88 million…