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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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]
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]
Siegel has stated on All Things Considered that his favorite movie is The Bridge on the River Kwai.
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