Lloyd W Siegel

Lloyd W. Siegel passed away on November 12, 2025, at age 78, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Lloyd was a respected journalist and news executive and a devoted husband, father, and brother.

A proud Ohioan, Lloyd was born in Cleveland on September 21, 1947, to Ruth and Paul Siegel. His passion for journalism started early as a young boy with a paper delivery route and as editor of the school newspaper at Cleveland Heights High School. Lloyd graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University, where he was elected president of the student government.

Lloyd began his career in journalism as a copy boy for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He then embarked on what would become a long and fulfilling 44-year career at NBC News. He started as a local reporter for the NBC stations in Cleveland and Washington, D.C. before becoming a field producer for Tom Brokaw in the NBC News Washington bureau, where he participated in the coverage of Watergate and the Nixon and Ford administrations.

Lloyd moved to New York to serve as domestic news producer for NBC Nightly News under John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw, a job he particularly cherished. It was during that time that he met his beloved wife Ronnie at a music appreciation class at The New School. They were married in July 1981 and, after welcoming daughter Jackie, settled on East End Avenue in Manhattan.

Lloyd next served as executive producer of Special Broadcasts for NBC News, where he ran the network’s live coverage of events like the Challenger disaster, the Lockerbie bombing, and the Tiananmen Square protests. In that role, he produced the special broadcast “AIDS Fear/AIDS Fact” with Tom Brokaw in 1985, which was the first news broadcast devoted entirely to the AIDS epidemic. After managing the network’s coverage of the 1992 presidential election, Lloyd created NBC’s News Partnerships division, which coordinated and managed the network’s relationship with its local stations. As vice president of News Partnerships, Lloyd had overall management responsibility for the news division’s relationship with more than 200 owned and affiliated stations, coordinating editorial and promotional support for the stations from such programs as Nightly News, Today, and Meet the Press; providing broadcast best practices; and helping stations make best use of their affiliation with NBC. Lloyd proudly held that role until his retirement in 2014. He loved working at NBC.

Lloyd was also committed to teaching the next generation of journalists. For more than 20 years, he taught broadcast news management at the Columbia School of Journalism, in addition to other adjunct professorships. And in 2013, he won the First Amendment Service Award from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation.

An avid reader, Lloyd always had a stack of books, the New Yorker, or the New York Times close at hand. He loved theater, music, traveling, and his family always. He was smart, funny, loving, and kind, and a devoted husband, father, brother, uncle, colleague, and friend.

Lloyd is survived by his wife of 44 years, Ronnie, daughter Jackie, and sister Helene, who all adore and miss him dearly.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity of your choice or The Committee to Protect Journalists at https://cpj.org.

A funeral service will be held at Riverside Memorial Chapel, located at 180 West 76th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10023, on November 18, 2025, starting at 11:00 am.

The service will be live-streamed at https://www.legacycelebrated.com/lloyd-w-siegel/.

A committal service will follow at Mount Golda Cemetery, 500 Old Country Road, Huntington Station, NY 11746, on November 18, 2025, beginning at 1:15 pm.