Education
Columbia University; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Stuyvesant High School.
Columbia University; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Stuyvesant High School.
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." After a year at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Siegel left academia for good and worked for WRVR in New York from 1971 to 1976. Siegel was hired as a newscaster for National Public Radio in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1976, and he has held various news and production jobs at National Public Radio 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, National Public Radio"s call-in talk show.
In 2009, Siegel appeared in director James Kerwin"s scifi noir film Yesterday Was a Lie. On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Siegel was presented with Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Journalism School of Columbia University.
Siegel grew up in Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village, in New York City. He is the son of Joseph, a commercial education teacher, and Edith, a secretary at Stuyvesant High School.
After graduating in 1964 from Stuyvesant, Siegel studied at Columbia University, graduating in 1968.
During this time he was an anchor for the reporting of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations at the college radio station, WKCR-FM.