Career
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 NPR in Washington, D.C., in 1976, 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.
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