Tom Hall
HostHost, Midday (M-F 12:00-1:00)
What are You Reading? (4th Friday of the month, at 4:44)
Tom Hall is the host of Midday, the highly rated news and public policy program 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. In 2009, the Baltimore City Paper named him "Best Local Radio Personality." In 2016, 2017 and 2019 he was recognized as "Best Talk Show Host" in the Baltimore Magazine Reader’s Poll.
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 Chestnut Grove Speakers Series, the Bolton Street Synagogue, 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 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 Hall lives in Baltimore, with his wife, Linell Smith. Their daughter, Miranda, is a playwright. @tomhallWYPR
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The new Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley joins Tom to discuss his plans for the police department including his goals for group violence reduction strategies and youth crime. -
Dr. Joy Buolamwini questions the future of technology in her new book, "Unmasking AI: My Misson to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines."
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Adam Nagourney, national political reporter for The New York Times, chronicles the challenges of New York's 'paper of record' in "The Times."
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It’s time now for What Ya Got Cookin', where we talk about Thanksgiving with our resident foodies John Shields, chef, author and owner of Gertrude’s Restaurant at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Damian Mosley of Blacksauce Kitchen.
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Tom speaks with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about ways to get better sleep during the cold, winter months.
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On today's Midday, a conversation with the acclaimed author Alice McDermott. She is a National Book Award winner, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of the most beloved writers in American letters. Her new novel, Absolution, is set in Vietnam in the earliest days of the war.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights the new stage troupe's revival of a Broadway favorite.
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What's ahead for Baltimore's Inner Harbor and its historic Camden Yards area? We get unique insights from Dr. Daniel Campo, an urban planning expert at Morgan State University.
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We're joined by a Banner editor and two reporters who've worked on the online news platform's deep dive into Baltimore's surging auto-theft rates.
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Our guest for the hour today is an Annapolis veterinary doctor who shares practical advice for keeping our pets happy and healthy, and takes your calls and emails.
