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'''Robert Charles Siegel''' (born June 26, 1947) is an American radio journalist. He was one of the co-hosts of the [[National Public Radio]] evening news broadcast ''[[All Things Considered]]'' from 1987 until January 2018.
'''Robert Charles Siegel''' (born June 26, 1947) is an American retired radio journalist. He was one of the co-hosts of the [[National Public Radio]] afternoon news broadcast ''[[All Things Considered]]'' from 1987 until his retirement in January 2018.


==Early life and education==
== Early life, family and education ==
Siegel was born June 26, 1947 in New York City, to parents Joseph and Edith Siegel (''née'' Joffe).<ref name="Who's Who">{{Cite book|contribution=Siegel, Robert Charles|title= Who's Who in America, 1994, Volume 2|year=1993|page=3164|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|isbn= 0837901537}}</ref> His father was a commercial education teacher, and his mother a secretary at [[Stuyvesant High School]].<ref name="cola"/> He grew up at [[Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village]].<ref>{{cite AV media |url=http://www.wnyc.org/audio/newsmag/m3u/atc/2013/apr/03/ |title=All Things Considered |date=3 April 2013 |time= |format=m3u |medium=Radio |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |website=[[WNYC]]}}</ref> His maternal grandfather claimed to descend from rabbinical scholar [[Mordechai Yoffe]]<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://momentmag.com/moment/issues/2012/10/GreatDNAExperiment.html |title=The Great DNA Experiment |magazine=[[Moment Magazine]] |first=Nadine |last=Epstein |date=20 September 2012 |department=Culture, Science}}</ref> and Siegel has identified on-air as [[Jewish]]. After graduating in 1964 from Stuyvesant,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101185 |title=Robert Siegel, NPR Biography |website=[[National Public Radio]] |accessdate=2007-11-01}}</ref> Siegel studied at [[Columbia University]], graduating in 1968.<ref name="cola"/> During this time he was an anchor for the reporting of the [[Columbia University protests of 1968|1968 Columbia demonstrations]] at the college radio station, [[WKCR-FM]].<ref name="cola"/>
Siegel was born June 26, 1947, in New York City, to parents Joseph and Edith Siegel (''née'' Joffe).<ref name="Who's Who">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Siegel, Robert Charles| encyclopedia= Who's Who in America, 1994, Volume 2|year=1993|page=[https://archive.org/details/lz00newp/page/3164 3164]| publisher=Marquis Who's Who|isbn=0-8379-0153-7|url-access= registration| url=https://archive.org/details/lz00newp/page/3164}}</ref> His father was a commercial education teacher, and his mother a secretary at [[Stuyvesant High School]].<ref name="cola" /> He grew up at [[Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village]].<ref>{{cite AV media |url=http://www.wnyc.org/audio/newsmag/m3u/atc/2013/apr/03/ |title=All Things Considered |date=April 3, 2013 |format=m3u |medium=Radio |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |website=[[WNYC]] |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131216140632/http://www.wnyc.org/audio/newsmag/m3u/atc/2013/apr/03/ |archive-date=December 16, 2013 }}</ref> His maternal grandfather claimed to descend from rabbinical scholar [[Mordechai Yoffe]],<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://momentmag.com/moment/issues/2012/10/GreatDNAExperiment.html |title=The Great DNA Experiment |journal=[[Moment Magazine]] |first=Nadine |last=Epstein |date=September 20, 2012 |department=Culture, Science |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120922020647/http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2012/10/GreatDNAExperiment.html |archive-date=September 22, 2012 }}</ref> and Siegel has identified on-air as [[Jewish]]. After graduating in 1964 from Stuyvesant,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101185 |title=Robert Siegel, NPR Biography |website=[[National Public Radio]] |access-date=November 1, 2007}}</ref> Siegel studied at [[Columbia University]], graduating from [[Columbia College (New York)|Columbia College]] in 1968.<ref name="cola" /> During this time, he was an anchor for the reporting of the [[Columbia University protests of 1968|1968 Columbia demonstrations]] at the college radio station, [[WKCR-FM]].<ref name="cola" />
He attended [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] for a year.<ref name="cola" />


==Career==
== Career ==
Siegel's first professional broadcasting job was at [[WGLI (defunct)|WGLI]] in [[Babylon (village), New York|Babylon, New York]], where he "did morning newscasts and a show that was part phone-ins, part [[Top 40|Top Forty]], all under the pseudonym Bob Charles."<ref name="cola">{{cite journal |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may_jun08/features1 |title=Three Moments with Robert Siegel '68 |first=John E |last=Mulligan |magazine=Columbia College Today |date=May–June 2008 |volume=35 |number=5}}</ref> After a year at [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]],<ref name="cola"/> Siegel left academia for good and worked for [[WLTW|WRVR]] in New York from 1971 to 1976.
Siegel's first professional broadcasting job was at [[WGLI (New York)|WGLI]] in [[Babylon (village), New York|Babylon, New York]], where he "did morning newscasts and a show that was part phone-ins, part [[Top 40|Top Forty]], all under the pseudonym Bob Charles."<ref name="cola">{{cite journal |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may_jun08/features1 |title=Three Moments with Robert Siegel '68 |first=John E |last=Mulligan |journal=Columbia College Today |date=May–June 2008 |volume=35 |number=5}}</ref> After graduate school, he worked for [[WLTW|WRVR]] in New York from 1971 to 1976.


Siegel was hired as a newscaster for [[NPR]] in Washington, D.C., in 1976,<ref name="cola"/> and he has held various news and production jobs at NPR since then. In broadcasts prior to the Panama Canal Treaty debates, he was referred to as "Bob," rather than his preferred "Robert."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572263140/nprs-robert-siegel-reflects-on-what-it-was-like-to-grow-up-on-the-air|title=NPR's Robert Siegel Reflects On What It Was Like To 'Grow Up On The Air'|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-02-27|language=en}}</ref> From 1979 to 1983 he was based in London, making him the first NPR staffer to be based overseas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2101185/robert-siegel|title=Robert Siegel|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref> Upon his return to America, he became the director of the News and Information Department, and was responsible for overseeing production of both ''All Things Considered'' and ''Morning Edition'', as well as the creation of ''Weekend Edition.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2101185/robert-siegel|title=Robert Siegel|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref> 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 2010, Siegel was presented with the [[John Chancellor Award| John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism]] by the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069774/page/1212609905162/JRNSimplePage2.htm |website=The Journalism School of Columbia University |department=Journalism Awards |title=The Chancellor Award |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023043859/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069774/page/1212609905162/JRNSimplePage2.htm |archivedate=2010-10-23}}</ref> Additionally, Siegel has won three Silver Batons from Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University, as well as the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2101185/robert-siegel|title=Robert Siegel|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
Siegel was hired as a newscaster for NPR in [[Washington, D.C.]], in 1976,<ref name="cola" /> and he has held various news and production jobs at NPR since then. In broadcasts prior to the Panama Canal Treaty debates, he was referred to as "Bob," rather than his preferred "Robert."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572263140/nprs-robert-siegel-reflects-on-what-it-was-like-to-grow-up-on-the-air|title=NPR's Robert Siegel Reflects On What It Was Like To 'Grow Up On The Air' |work= NPR.org|access-date=February 27, 2018|language=en}}</ref> From 1979 to 1983 he was based in London, making him the first NPR staffer to be based overseas.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2101185/robert-siegel|title=Robert Siegel |website= NPR.org|language=en|access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> Upon his return to America, he became the director of the News and Information Department, and was responsible for overseeing production of both ''All Things Considered'' and ''Morning Edition'', as well as the creation of ''Weekend Edition.''<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Starting in 1987, he was a host of ''All Things Considered''. He took a short break in 1992 to host ''[[Talk of the Nation]]'', NPR's [[talk radio|call-in talk show]]. In 2010, Siegel was presented with the [[John Chancellor Award]] for Excellence in Journalism by the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069774/page/1212609905162/JRNSimplePage2.htm |website=The Journalism School of Columbia University |department=Journalism Awards |title=The Chancellor Award |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101023043859/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069774/page/1212609905162/JRNSimplePage2.htm |archive-date=October 23, 2010}}</ref> Siegel won three [[Silver Baton]]s from Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University and the American Bar Association's [[Silver Gavel Award]].<ref name="autogenerated1" />


In April 2017, Siegel announced he would end his time with ''All Things Considered''. His last day on the program was January 5, 2018.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andrews-Dyer|first1=Helena|title=NPR’s Robert Siegel set to leave ‘All Things Considered’|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/25/nprs-robert-siegel-set-to-leave-all-things-considered/|work=Washington Post|date=25 April 2017}}</ref>
In April 2017, Siegel announced he would end his time with ''All Things Considered''. His last day on the program was January 5, 2018.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andrews-Dyer|first1=Helena|title=NPR's Robert Siegel set to leave 'All Things Considered' |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/25/nprs-robert-siegel-set-to-leave-all-things-considered/ |newspaper= Washington Post|date=April 25, 2017}}</ref>


Siegel has also made cameo appearances in several television shows, including ''[[The Simpsons]]'',<ref name="Washingtonian-2017-04-25">{{cite news|last1=Freed|first1=Benjamin|title=Robert Siegel to Leave NPR's All Things Considered in January 2018|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/04/25/robert-siegel-to-leave-nprs-all-things-considered-in-2018/|work=Washingtonian|date=25 April 2017}}</ref> ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', ''[[BoJack Horseman]]''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Carra|first1=Mallory|title=The 'BoJack Horseman' Season 4 Guest Stars Make Hollywood Feel Like The Real Thing|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/the-bojack-horseman-season-4-guest-stars-make-hollywoo-feel-like-the-real-thing-2334254|website=Bustle|language=en|date=September 14, 2017}}</ref> and the film ''[[Yesterday Was a Lie]]''.
Siegel has made cameo appearances in several television shows, including ''[[The Simpsons]]'',<ref name="Washingtonian-2017-04-25">{{cite news|last1=Freed|first1=Benjamin|title=Robert Siegel to Leave NPR's All Things Considered in January 2018| url= https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/04/25/robert-siegel-to-leave-nprs-all-things-considered-in-2018/| work= Washingtonian |date=April 25, 2017}}</ref> ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', ''[[BoJack Horseman]]''<ref>{{cite web| last1=Carra|first1=Mallory|title=The 'BoJack Horseman' Season 4 Guest Stars Make Hollywood Feel Like The Real Thing|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/the-bojack-horseman-season-4-guest-stars-make-hollywoo-feel-like-the-real-thing-2334254|website=Bustle|language=en|date=September 14, 2017}}</ref> and the film ''[[Yesterday Was a Lie]]''.


For the weeks of June 5, 2018, and February 17, 2020, Siegel guest-hosted NPR's ''[[On Point]]''.<ref>{{cite tweet| user= OnPointRadio| number= 1003987305357627392 |title= Miss hearing @NPR's Robert Siegel (@RSiegel47) on the air? Wait no longer – he's our guest host today through Friday! Tune in live at 10/9c. |date=June 5, 2018 |access-date=August 21, 2019}}</ref>
==Personal life==
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In 1973 Siegel married Jane Claudia Schwartz,<ref name="Who's Who"/> who works for the [[United States Department of Commerce]]; they are the parents of two daughters, Erica Anne Siegel<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/fashion/weddings/08SIEG.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |title=Erica Siegel and Mark Narron |date=8 January 2006}}</ref> and musician [[Leah Siegel]].<ref name="cola"/><ref>{{cite web |author=All Songs Considered |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15960593 |title=Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing |website=[[National Public Radio]] |date=12 April 2007 |accessdate=2011-06-16}}</ref>


==References==
== Personal life ==
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In 1973, Siegel married Jane Claudia Schwartz,<ref name="Who's Who" /> who worked for the [[United States Department of Commerce]]. They have two daughters, Erica Anne Siegel<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/fashion/weddings/08SIEG.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |title=Erica Siegel and Mark Narron |date=January 8, 2006}}</ref> and musician [[Leah Siegel]].<ref name="cola" /><ref>{{cite web |work= [[All Songs Considered]] |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15960593 |title=Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing |via= NPR.org| publisher= National Public Radio |date= April 12, 2007 |access-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
== External links ==
* [https://www.npr.org/people/2101185/robert-siegel Robert Siegel] at [[NPR]]
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* {{Twitter|RSiegel47}}
* {{C-SPAN|13698}}
* [https://www.blu-ray.com/news/search.php?action=search&postername=Robert%20Siegel Silver Screen articles] at Blu-ray.com


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Latest revision as of 22:08, 20 April 2024

For other people named Robert Siegel, see Robert Siegel (disambiguation).
Robert Siegel
Siegel at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards, 2009
Born (1947-06-26) June 26, 1947 (age 77)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationBroadcast journalist
Years active1971–2018
Known forAll Things Considered Distinctive Voice

Robert Charles Siegel (born June 26, 1947) is an American retired radio journalist. He was one of the co-hosts of the National Public Radio afternoon news broadcast All Things Considered from 1987 until his retirement in January 2018.

Early life, family and education

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Siegel was born June 26, 1947, in New York City, to parents Joseph and Edith Siegel (née Joffe).[1] His father was a commercial education teacher, and his mother a secretary at Stuyvesant High School.[2] He grew up at Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village.[3] 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 from Columbia College in 1968.[2] During this time, he was an anchor for the reporting of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations at the college radio station, WKCR-FM.[2] He attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for a year.[2]

Career

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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."[2] After graduate school, he worked for WRVR in New York from 1971 to 1976.

Siegel was hired as a newscaster for NPR in Washington, D.C., in 1976,[2] and he has held various news and production jobs at NPR since then. In broadcasts prior to the Panama Canal Treaty debates, he was referred to as "Bob," rather than his preferred "Robert."[6] From 1979 to 1983 he was based in London, making him the first NPR staffer to be based overseas.[7] Upon his return to America, he became the director of the News and Information Department, and was responsible for overseeing production of both All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as the creation of Weekend Edition.[7] Starting in 1987, he was 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 2010, Siegel was presented with the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[8] Siegel won three Silver Batons from Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.[7]

In April 2017, Siegel announced he would end his time with All Things Considered. His last day on the program was January 5, 2018.[9]

Siegel has made cameo appearances in several television shows, including The Simpsons,[10] Northern Exposure, BoJack Horseman[11] and the film Yesterday Was a Lie.

For the weeks of June 5, 2018, and February 17, 2020, Siegel guest-hosted NPR's On Point.[12]

Personal life

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In 1973, Siegel married Jane Claudia Schwartz,[1] who worked for the United States Department of Commerce. They have two daughters, Erica Anne Siegel[13] and musician Leah Siegel.[2][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Siegel, Robert Charles". Who's Who in America, 1994, Volume 2. Marquis Who's Who. 1993. p. 3164. ISBN 0-8379-0153-7.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Mulligan, John E (May–June 2008). "Three Moments with Robert Siegel '68". Columbia College Today. 35 (5).
  3. ^ All Things Considered. WNYC (Radio). National Public Radio. April 3, 2013. Archived from the original (m3u) on December 16, 2013.
  4. ^ Epstein, Nadine (September 20, 2012). "The Great DNA Experiment". Culture, Science. Moment Magazine. Archived from the original on September 22, 2012.
  5. ^ "Robert Siegel, NPR Biography". National Public Radio. Retrieved November 1, 2007.
  6. ^ "NPR's Robert Siegel Reflects On What It Was Like To 'Grow Up On The Air'". NPR.org. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  7. ^ a b c "Robert Siegel". NPR.org. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  8. ^ "The Chancellor Award". Journalism Awards. The Journalism School of Columbia University. Archived from the original on October 23, 2010.
  9. ^ Andrews-Dyer, Helena (April 25, 2017). "NPR's Robert Siegel set to leave 'All Things Considered'". Washington Post.
  10. ^ Freed, Benjamin (April 25, 2017). "Robert Siegel to Leave NPR's All Things Considered in January 2018". Washingtonian.
  11. ^ Carra, Mallory (September 14, 2017). "The 'BoJack Horseman' Season 4 Guest Stars Make Hollywood Feel Like The Real Thing". Bustle.
  12. ^ @OnPointRadio (June 5, 2018). "Miss hearing @NPR's Robert Siegel (@RSiegel47) on the air? Wait no longer – he's our guest host today through Friday! Tune in live at 10/9c" (Tweet). Retrieved August 21, 2019 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ "Erica Siegel and Mark Narron". The New York Times. January 8, 2006.
  14. ^ "Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing". All Songs Considered. National Public Radio. April 12, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2011 – via NPR.org.
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