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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In a special Midday broadcast for Black History Month, we revisit our conversation with author and former New York Times journalist Scott Shane about his novel, Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland. -
Creative Alliance's first performing resident artist Brinae Ali spotlights the legacy of Baltimore tap dancer Baby Laurence. -
CASA is an organizing group created to support immigrant communities in the Washington, D.C./Maryland region and their Policy Director Cathryn Paul joins Midday to discuss the organization's current legislative efforts. -
U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks address challenges for Maryland's federal workforce, agencies and critical federal funding dollars. -
In our state, there were 5 times the number of incidents involving shootings on Maryland roads than there were 10 years earlier. State police and the legislature are ramping up efforts to address the problem. -
Dr. Joanne Martin, the founder and director of the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, offers her reflections in this Black History Month. -
Rep. Johnny Olszewski, representing Maryland's 2nd District, joins the 119th U.S. Congress as a member of the minority party in the U.S. House and Senate. -
Author and historian Kellie Carter Jackson researched the resistance against white supremacy through out U.S. history. -
Theatre critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Midday to review Primary Trust, at Everyman Theatre through March 2. -
Midday is joined by New York's premiere cabaret couple, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano. The husband and wife. team are celebrating their 20th anniversary with their latest project, Painting the Town.
