
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 joins the show to share her review of "Julius Caesar," which continues at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City through July 20.
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Tom speaks with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on the latest concerns in Baltimore City.
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Midday hears from journalism leaders and educators about the challenges for local newsrooms and how the industry can pivot for a promising future.
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Former Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter discusses her tenure in leadership and the complicated intersection of politics and performing arts.
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Commerce Secretary Harry Coker Jr. sits with Tom to discuss the future of Maryland's business sector while grappling with state and federal budget cuts.
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Tom talks with the author Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, whose latest book is Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free.
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Vincent Dion Stringer is an artist, singer and poet. He joins Midday to discuss his latest art exhibition, "My Soul is a Witness: A Journey Through Art and Spirituality."
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Rep. Johnny Olszewski, Jr., and Rep. Sarah Elfreth join Midday to discuss the ongoing conflicts between Israel and Iran.
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Former Capital Gazette newspaper editor Tom Marquardt recalls the story of the 2018 shooting in Annapolis that killed five employees.
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Tom sits down with Towson University President Mark Ginsberg to discuss the current challenges facing colleges and universities.