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GBH News names new ‘Morning Edition’ hosts

Journalists Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel will co-host the morning news program for the station.

Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel.

November 12, 2021

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Starting in 2022, listeners to GBH’s “Morning Edition” will be greeted by the voices of two new hosts.

The station announced on Friday that journalists Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel will take over as co-hosts of the morning news program.

Alston joins the station from WBUR, where she is the host of the NPR podcast “Consider This,” which is produced in association with GBH. Siegel will join GBH from POLITICO, where he is currently the host and producer of the Washington, D.C.-based podcast “POLITICO Dispatch.”

The pair will take over hosting “Morning Edition” in early 2022, according to GBH, after “spending time with local news audiences all across Massachusetts, listening and learning about the issues people care about most.”

In a statement Friday, the station said that Alston and Siegel will reinvent the morning news experience for GHB listeners and bring “a fresh and contemporary energy to the show.”

“Our audiences have told us that mornings matter most when it comes to news,” Pam Johnston, General Manager of News at GBH, said in a statement. “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.”

The program’s previous host, Joe Mathieu, departed in June for Bloomberg, where he now serves as a Washington correspondent.