Public radio host Jeremy Hobson to keynote INBA Fall Convention
Jeremy Hobson, an Urbana native and nationally known public radio host, will join the INBA Fall Convention as its keynote speaker.
He will appear virtually during the Convention’s Saturday night dinner.
A former host of WBUR/NPR’s nationally distributed “Here and Now” afternoon news magazine show, Hobson now hosts a national call-in talk show called “The Middle,” which aims to elevate the voices of Americans who live in between the coasts.
The show, which debuted with four pilot episodes last fall during the 2022 midterm elections, will kick off a new set of broadcasts in September.
Hobson started in public radio when he was 9 years old by working on a show called “Treehouse Radio” on WILL, the public radio station in Champaign-Urbana. He interned for “All Things Considered” when he was 17 years old. He was a student reporter in the Illinois Public Media newsroom during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He spent years working as a producer and reporter, before hosting “Marketplace Morning Report” heard on NPR stations around the country. He served as one of the hosts of WBUR/NPR’s “Here and Now,” from 2013-2020.
Hobson has also reported and hosted for public radio stations including WRNI Providence and WCAI Cape Cod. He also worked as a producer for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Day to Day” and “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
He is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Illinois’ Laboratory High School.
Sources: WBUR, WAMU, Illinois Public Media