Robert Siegel, a host of
National Public Radio®'s (NPR) award-winning evening
newsmagazine All Things Considered ®, brings
more than 29 years of distinguished journalistic experience to his
position. As a host, Siegel has reported from Western Europe, Eastern
Europe, and Israel, but he now concentrates on domestic stories.
During the fall of 1992, Siegel took a
short leave from the show to anchor Talk Of The Nation®,
NPR's nationwide daily call-in program.
Before joining All Things Considered
in 1987, Siegel served for four years as director of the News and Information Department, overseeing production of NPR's newsmagazines All
Things Considered and Morning Edition®, as
well as special events and other news programming. During his tenure,
NPR launched its popular Saturday and Sunday newsmagazine, Weekend
Edition. Siegel joined NPR in December, 1976, as an associate
producer, and was appointed public affairs editor in 1977 and senior
editor in 1978. In 1979, Siegel was chosen to open NPR's London Bureau,
where he worked as senior editor until 1983.
From 1971 to 1976, Siegel worked for WRVR
Radio in New York City as a reporter, host, and director of news and
public affairs. While at WRVR, he was one of a team that received an
Armstrong Award for the series "Rockefeller's Drug Law."
Before going to WRVR, he was morning news reporter and telephone talk
show host for WGLI Radio in Babylon, New York.
Siegel shared in NPR's 1994/95 Alfred I.
duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for "The Changing of
the Guard: The Republican Revolution," NPR's coverage of the first
100 days of the 104th Congress. His coverage of the peace movements in
East and West Germany earned him a 1984 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia
University Silver Baton Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.
His other awards include the National Mental Health Association's 1991
Mental Health Award for his interviews conducted on the streets of New
York in an All Things Considered story, "The Mentally Ill
Homeless."
A graduate of Columbia University,
Siegel's career in radio began at the college radio station, WKCR-FM,
where he anchored coverage of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations. The
station's work received an award from the Writers Guild of America East.
Siegel is the editor of The NPR
Interviews 1994 and The NPR Interviews 1995, annual
compilations of NPR's most popular radio conversations.
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