Robert Siegel

For other people named Robert Siegel, see Robert Siegel (disambiguation).

Robert Siegel (born 1947) is an American radio journalist best known as host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast All Things Considered.

Career

Siegel's first professional broadcasting job was at WGLI in Babylon, New York, where he "did morning newscasts and a show that was part phone-ins, part Top Forty, all under the pseudonym Bob Charles."[1] After a year at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,[1] Siegel left academia for good and worked for WRVR in New York from 1971 to 1976.

Siegel was hired as a newscaster for NPR in Washington, D.C., in 1976,[1] and he has held various news and production jobs at NPR since then. Since 1987, he has been a host of All Things Considered. He took a short break in 1992 to host Talk of the Nation, NPR's call-in talk show.

In 2009, Siegel appeared in director James Kerwin's scifi noir film Yesterday Was a Lie.

On Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, Siegel was presented with Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Journalism School of Columbia University.[2]

Early life and education

Siegel grew up in Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village, in New York City.[3] He is the son of Joseph, a commercial education teacher, and Edith, a secretary at Stuyvesant High School.[1] His maternal grandfather claimed to descend from rabbinical scholar Mordechai Yoffe [4] and Siegel has identified on-air as Jewish. After graduating in 1964 from Stuyvesant,[5] Siegel studied at Columbia University, graduating in 1968.[1] During this time he was an anchor for the reporting of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations at the college radio station, WKCR-FM.[1]

Personal life

Siegel is married to Jane Siegel, who works for the United States Department of Commerce; they are the parents of two daughters, Erica Anne Siegel[6] and musician Leah Siegel.[1][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mulligan, John E (May–June 2008). "Three Moments with Robert Siegel '68". Columbia College Today 35 (5).
  2. ↑ "The Chancellor Award". Journalism Awards. The Journalism School of Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23.
  3. ↑ All Things Considered (m3u). WNYC (Radio) (National Public Radio). 3 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Epstein, Nadine (20 September 2012). "The Great DNA Experiment". Culture, Science. Moment Magazine.
  5. ↑ "Robert Siegel, NPR Biography". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
  6. ↑ "Erica Siegel and Mark Narron". The New York Times. 8 January 2006.
  7. ↑ All Songs Considered (12 April 2007). "Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2011-06-16.


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