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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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Piano Lesson, at Everyman Theater. -
City Council President Zeke Cohen joins Midday to talk about funding more efficient bus lines. Plus, councilmembers debate a review of how much the city's educational and medical institutions pay toward the city budget. -
MONSE director Stefanie Mavronis and violence reduction policy expert Jeremy Biddle discuss Baltimore's successful strategies for curbing violent crime in the city. -
Rep. April McClain Delaney, a Democrat elected in 2024 to represent Maryland's 6th congressional district, says she's fighting to protect her constituents from draconian Republican budget cuts. -
Ivan Bates is the State's Attorney for Baltimore. He took office in 2023. -
Attorney Erica Suter has led Innocence Project Clinics at U Balt Law and now UM Carey Law schools, where law students learn how to right past injustice, like the one portrayed in Jia Rizvi's new documentary, "Sixteen Years." -
The 2016 PILOT agreement with more than a dozen nonprofit and medical institutions has been criticized. -
Baltimore City's Office of the Inspector General looks into waste and fraud within city government. Isabel Cumming joins Midday to talk about recent investigations holding officials accountable. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the lively Scottish musical "Ceilidh" (pronounced KAY-lee) now playing at the M&T Bank Exchange performance space next to the Hippodrome Theater. -
Vocalist Limmie Pulliam and pianist Mark Markham will perform a program of gospel songs and arias as part of the free "Community Concerts at 2nd" series at the Second Presbyterian Church Sunday September 14, 2025.
