Robert Siegel
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'''Robert Siegel''' is an [[United States|American]] [[radio]] [[journalist]] best known as [[:wikt:host|host]] of the [[National Public Radio]] evening news broadcast ''[[All Things Considered]]''.
After graduating in 1964 from [[Stuyvesant High School]] in [[New York City]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101185 |title=Robert Siegel, NPR Biography |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |accessdate=2007-11-01}}</ref> Siegel studied at [[Columbia University]]. 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. From 1971 to 1976, he worked for [[WRVR]] in New York.
Siegel was hired as an associate producer at NPR in December 1976, and he has held various news and production jobs there 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 2008, Siegel appeared in director [[James Kerwin]]'s [[scifi]] [[film noir|noir]] [[film]] ''[[Yesterday Was a Lie]]''.
==See also==
*[[Michele Norris]]
*[[Melissa Block]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/rsiegel.html NPR biography]
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