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NPR’s Robert Siegel, a legendary journalist and mainstay of public radio, will step down next January.<\/h2>\n

“Looking ahead to my seventies (which start all too soon) I feel that it is time for me to begin a new phase of life,” Siegel, 69, said in a statement. “Over the next few months, I hope to figure out what that will be.”<\/p>\n

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The decision leaves NPR with a crucial microphone to fill. Siegel has been a host of the organization’s flagship evening broadcast “All Things Considered” since 1987. He is now the broadcast’s senior host, a familiar voice for generations of radio listeners.<\/p>\n

“Finding his successor will not be easy,” NPR said in a press release.<\/a> “We will conduct a national search — looking inside NPR and across the media landscape — for the next voice of All Things Considered.”<\/p>\n

Siegel’s co-hosts are Audie Cornish, Kelly McEvers and Ari Shapiro. The broadcast rounds out NPR’s programming day, providing detailed coverage of the day’s news for stations across the country.<\/p>\n

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