Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American radio journalist best known as host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast All Things Considered.
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[edit] Career
Siegel's first professional broadcasting job was at WBLI 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]
[edit] Personal life
Siegel grew up in New York City, the son of Joseph, a commercial education teacher, and Edith, a secretary at Stuyvesant High School.[1] After graduating in 1964 from Stuyvesant,[3] 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]
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[4] and musician Leah Siegel.[1][5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Three Moments with Robert Siegel ’68". Columbia College Today. http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may_jun08/features1. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ "The Chancellor Award". The Journalism School of Columbia University. http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069774/page/1212609905162/JRNSimplePage2.htm. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Robert Siegel, NPR Biography". National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101185. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
- ^ "Erica Siegel and Mark Narron". The New York Times. 2006-01-08. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/fashion/weddings/08SIEG.html. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
- ^ All Songs Considered (2007-04-12). "Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15960593. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
[edit] External links
- Biography from NPR
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