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 WYP 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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On today's Midday, updates a day after the tragedy in the Patapsco River. The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after it was struck by a cargo ship. We hear from listeners about their feelings on this stunning event.
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The search and rescue efforts continue at the site of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in south Baltimore. In the early morning of Tuesday, a cargo ship crashed into a pier supporting the decades-old bridge and vital artery along the eastern seaboard.
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge serves as a vital artery along the I-95 corridor. Portions of the bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River following the collision, choking off traffic into the port and leading officials to launch a search-and-rescue operation in the river.
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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.
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State Sen. Clarence Lam joins Midday to discuss his campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland's 3rd Congressional District. A highly competitive race to succeed congressman John Sarbanes.
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Tom talks with Meghan McCorkell, the Chief of Marketing, Communications, & Strategy at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
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Wendy Bozel, a long-time educator and community advocate, discusses her motivation for joining the mayor's race.
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Playwright Karen Zacarias joins Midday, along with our theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, to discuss her award-winning comedy "The Book Club Play" which runs at Everyman Theatre until April 14.
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Today's news wrap focuses on juvenile justice reform in Maryland and a push for tax reform in Annapolis.
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Hagerstown Mayor Tekesha Martinez joins Midday to discuss her path to politics and aspirations for joining Congress.