
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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Babbitt, starring Tony-winner Matthew Broderick, runs through November 3 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington.
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Just over a year since the Israeli campaign in the Gaza Strip began, we hear perspectives from Marylanders with intimate connection to the Palestinian occupied territories.
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Baltimore is set to vote on a slate of candidates this election. But ballots will also include several proposed amendments to the city's charter, which is like a city constitution. One of the amendments is Question H, which would reduce the size of the City Council.
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Popularized by his gripping thrillers, author John Grisham latest book is his second work of non-fiction. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions follows the stories of people falsely convicted of crimes, and the efforts to clear their name and return their freedom.
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Maryland’s State Administrator of Elections joins Midday as early voting is set to begin on Oct. 15. Then, Sam Novey of Baltimore Votes Coalition on getting more people involved in their election process. Two new election judges, both high school students, share what spurred them to action.
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August Wilson's vivid story of the Great Migration follows Herald Loomis as he searches for his missing wife in Pittsburgh. Joe Turner's Come and Gone is the second show in The Baltimore August Wilson Celebration.
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Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks faced off on the debate state yesterday. Who came out on top as the election enters its final weeks?
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The race for the U.S. House seat representing Maryland's 2nd District sees Republican Kim Klacik, a radio talk show host, face off against Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski.
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Legal scholar and author Erwin Chemerinsky joins Midday to discuss the flaws of the Constitution in No Democracy Lasts Forever.
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Tom speaks with the two congressional candidates for Maryland's third district. Rob Steinberger (R) and State Senator Sarah Elfreth (D) join Midday to discuss the priorities of their campaigns.