Robert Siegel Stepping Down As 'All Things Considered' Host In 2018

[DonViejo]

Source: NPR



April 25, 201710:55 AM ET

Robert Siegel, whose career with NPR has spanned more than four decades, will be stepping down as co-host of NPR's All Things Considered next year. One of the most distinctive voices on NPR's airwaves, Siegel will be leaving the host's chair in January 2018. He has hosted the show for 30 years.

"This is a decision long in the making and not an easy one," Siegel said. "I've had the greatest job I can think of, working with the finest colleagues anyone could ask for, for as long a stretch as I could imagine. But, looking ahead to my 70s (which start all too soon) I feel that it is time for me to begin a new phase of life. Over the next few months, I hope to figure out what that will be."

Siegel started at NPR as a newscaster in 1976. He was a senior editor in NPR's London bureau and the director of the news and information department before he became host of All Things Considered in 1987.

Siegel "reported from every corner of the country and around the world," NPR executives said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525552445/robert-siegel-stepping-down-as-all-things-considered-host-in-2018?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170425&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

[hlthe2b]

1. Sorry to see him go... I think he was far less likely to engage in the "they both do it"

rationalization and equalization of overtly disparate sets of facts than several at NPR now. I always have to contain myself from throwing something at the radio, cell phone, stereo, or whatever I'm listening to when they do that...

Great career, Siegel.

[Ligyron]

2. I agree.

He is getting old but I wonder if the Koch bros. didn't ask him to step down.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[NurseJackie]

3. I love both of my local NPR stations!!

[2naSalit]

5. I moved this past year

and now I have two too! Used to only get the LDSNPR station in Rmoneyland and local with only moldy oldies and 30 seconds of news/hr.

Now I get up to FIVE radio stations! Holy cow! Almost don't know how to behave sometimes.

[mdbl]

6. An example of a good journalist

not many left now.