Alston & Siegel New Hosts Of GBH’s ‘Morning Edition’
• Signaling a new era for its popular local morning program, GBH 89.7/Boston has named Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel as the new co-hosts of Morning Edition at GBH News, weekdays from 5-10am ET, joining a dedicated morning news team led by Morning Edition producer Karen Marshall.
Alston (left) rejoins GBH from Boston University’s WBUR, where she is a host of the NPR podcast Consider This, produced in conjunction with GBH. Siegel (right) is currently the host and producer of the DC-based daily news podcast POLITICO Dispatch.
“Our audiences have told us that mornings matter most when it comes to news,” said Pam Johnston, General Manager of News at GBH. “They look to us to get the information they need and set the tone for the day ahead. With Paris and Jeremy as co-hosts of Morning Edition at GBH News, our audiences will get local stories from different perspectives. They’ll engage with a pair of dynamic, smart and accomplished journalists who possess a real knack for understanding and dissecting the complex stories of our time.”
Alston held several roles at GBH earlier in her career, most recently as host of GBH’s digital series Keep it Social. Prior to that, she worked at UNC-TV in North Carolina and NBC10/Philadelphia. Before his time at POLITICO Dispatch, Siegel was an anchor and award-winning reporter at KQED/San Francisco.
The newly minted morning duo will step into their Morning Edition co-host roles in early 2022, after spending time with local news audiences all across Massachusetts, listening and learning about the issues people care about most. NPR’s Morning Edition is the most listened-to radio program in the country, delivering in-depth reporting about stories that break overnight and set the agenda for the day. [Alston photo credit: Meredith Nierman/GBH News; Siegel photo: Clare Suffern]
