Rob Sivak
Interim senior producer, MiddayRob Sivak is interim senior producer for Midday, with host Tom Hall. Recently retired after a seven-year stint as a Midday producer, Rob joined WYPR in 2015 as senior producer of Hall's previous show, Maryland Morning (which aired its final broadcast on September 16th, 2016). Before coming to the station, Rob enjoyed a 36-year career at the congressionally funded global broadcaster, Voice of America. At VOA, he honed his skills as a news and feature reporter, producer, editor and program host.
After reporting assignments at VOA's New York City, United Nations and Los Angeles bureaus, Rob spent two decades covering international food, farming and nutrition issues for VOA's 180-million worldwide listeners, and created and hosted several popular VOA science magazines. At Midday, he continued to pursue his passion for radio and his abiding interests in science, health, technology and politics.
Rob grew up as an ex-pat "oil brat" on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, and studied and traveled widely in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. He attended Hofstra University in New York and Boston University's School of Public Communications. Rob and his wife Caroline Barnes, a writer, live in Silver Spring, Maryland, where they've raised three daughters.
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Guest host Matt Bush talks with local reporters about the competitive County Executive races shaping up in three Maryland counties: Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel. -
Movie mavens Jed Dietz and Max Weiss join Tom to compare notes on their favorite movies of 2025, and talk about the latest trends in the film industry. -
Author and word-nerd Stefan Fatsis shares his experience as a lexicographer-in-training at America's most famous dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster. -
Writer Marion Winik talks about the 30th anniversary reissue of her powerful memoir of love and loss, featuring a new introduction by the author, and a new audiobook. -
Each week here on Midday, it is our practice to read the names of the people who have lost their lives to violence in Baltimore City. -
Dr. Leana Wen joins us to discuss controversial changes to childhood vaccination schedules, rising flu and measles cases in the US and her concerns about the efficacy and safety of medical cannabis. -
WYPR's Scout Maucione was at a rally of Maryland residents opposing US attacks on Venezuela. -
WYPR's Nathanael Miller has the latest on plans for massive data centers in Western Maryland. -
CES is one of the biggest consumer technology conferences in the world. Tech insider Jason Michael Perry gives a preview live from Las Vegas, Nevada. -
The second installment of author Rick Atkinson's "The Revolution Trilogy" describes a difficult, pivotal phase of the American war of independence from Britain.
