Jeremy Hobson is an American national radio journalist and podcaster. He hosts the weekly show ''The Middle with Jeremy Hobson''. He was a co-host, along with Robin Young and Tonya Mosley, of

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and WBUR's ''Here and Now''. He left the show in October 2020.

Education and personal life

A native of

Urbana, Illinois Urbana ( ) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. As of the 2020 census, Urbana had a population of 38,336. It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, which had 236,000 residents i ...

, Hobson graduated from University High School in 1999 and received his undergraduate degree from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

. He is the son of pianist Ian Hobson. Hobson is gay, and was the first openly LGBT person to host a WBUR program.

Career

Prior to his tenure at NPR, Hobson worked at NPR member stations

WCAI WCAI (90.1 FM) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, WNAN (91.1 FM) in Nantucket, and WZAI (94.3 FM) in Brewster, are NPR member radio stations serving the Cape Cod and Islands area of southeast Massachusetts. They broadcast primarily news and info ...

(Cape Cod, Massachusetts),

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(Urbana, Illinois), and Rhode Island Public Radio, as a reporter and local show host. He has also been a producer for

’s ''

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'', '' Day to Day'' and '' Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''. Hobson hosted the ''Marketplace'' Morning Report from 2011 to 2013.

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