Tom Hall
HostHost, Midday (M-F 12:00-1:00)
Tom Hall is the host of Midday, the award-winning, highly rated news and public policy program on WYPR Radio that features interviews with elected officials, community leaders, as well as thought provoking authors, artists, researchers, journalists, and scholars from around the world.
Tom joined the WYPR staff as the Host of Choral Arts Classics in 2003. After 10 years as the Culture Correspondent and then host of Maryland Morning, Tom became the host of Midday in September, 2016. In 2020, Tom and the Midday team won an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award, one of journalism’s most prestigious awards.
Tom is also the Host of What Are You Reading? on WYPR. He has also hosted the Maryland Morning Screen Test, and the WYPR/MD Film Festival Spotlight Series. In 2006, as the Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Tom received an Emmy Award for Christmas with Choral Arts, a special that aired on WMAR television, the ABC affiliate in Maryland, for 21 years. He has been a guest co-host of Maryland Public Television’s Art Works, and in 2007, he was named “Best New Broadcast Journalist” by the Maryland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Baltimore Magazine and the City Paper have named him "Best Local Radio Personality" and "Best Talk Show Host" multiple times.
Tom has been invited to speak and moderate public forums at Johns Hopkins University, the University of MD and UMBC, Morgan State University, the MD Institute College of Art, the Creative Alliance, the Baltimore City Lit Festival, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the Stoop Storytelling Series, the Enoch Pratt Library, the Ivy Bookshop, the Great Talks Series, the Phi Beta Kappa Political Forum, the Hamilton Street Club, the Baltimore Women’s Forum, the First Amendment Society, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Towson University, the Baltimore Broadcasters Coalition and the College Endowment Association. He has also moderated Mayoral and Congressional debates, panels at Light City in Baltimore, and at the Stevenson University Speakers Series.
He appears each year as the moderator of the Rosenberg-Blaustein Distinguished Artist Recital Series at Goucher College. His publications include articles in the Baltimore Sun, Style Magazine, and Baltimore Magazine, and he is the co-author of The Bach Passions in Our Time: Contending with the Legacy of Antisemitism, published by the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies. Tom also serves on the board of directors of the Baltimore Community Foundation.
Tom Hall lives in Baltimore, with his wife, Linell Smith. Their daughter, Miranda, is a television screen writer and playwright. @tomhallWYPR
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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights 'Santa Claus is Comin': A Motown Christmas Revue' at Baltimore Center Stage through January 4. -
Sportswriter Jane Leavy's latest book is a fact-rich pitch for new rules in baseball to bring more fairness — and fun — back to "America's pastime." -
Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley was named the city's top cop in 2023, after many years working in the department. -
Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout's latest book engages characters both familiar and new, as the author explores human relationships and the value of unnoticed, 'unrecorded' lives. -
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis discuss their probe into Trump's decade-long efforts to subvert the DOJ, and the nation's rule of law. -
MD Hunger Solution director LaMonika Jones discusses efforts to reduce the disturbingly high rates of poverty and food insecurity in Maryland, one of the nation's wealthiest states. -
Each week here on Midday, it is our practice to read the names of the people who have lost their lives to violence in Baltimore City. -
Student Support Network founder Laurie Mitchell-Taylor describes how the 10-year-old non-profit assists needy Baltimore County students with donated food, clothing, school supplies and other support through programs in 21 schools. -
Dr. Leana Wen is former health commissioner for Baltimore City, and is now a regular columnist on health news at the Washington Post. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Juxtapose: A Theatrical Shadow Box," a new creative offering from Happenstance Theatre, now at Baltimore's Theatre Project.
