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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Experts say all age ranges are being taken advantage of, with hundreds or thousands of dollars lost. -
The executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council reacts to Monday's release by Hamas of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, amid a fragile ceasefire agreement and uncertainty about an Israel-Palestine peace. -
Dr. Hahrie Han is the a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the SNF Agora Institute. -
State leaders have signaled a willingness to address the longstanding funding disputes between charter schools and the school districts where they are located. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Mott & Bailey's new mash-up production of the Shakespeare tragedy and the alt-rock classic by My Chemical Romance, now at Baltimore's Mercury Theater performance space. -
'Hidden Brain' creator and host Shankar Vedantam, whose touring show comes to Baltimore on Saturday, shares insights from 10 years of fascinating podcasts about how our brains make us tick. -
Carole King's chart-topping career as a singer-songwriter illuminated in Jane Eisner's new biographyJane Eisner's new bio of Carole King traces the decades-spanning career, with all its triumphs and setbacks, of one of America's most influential singer-songwriters. -
Unmarked graves near an old detention center from the 19th century are a window into a dark chapter of Maryland history. Lawmakers hope to memorialize the grave sites, and lead a conversation about juvenile justice today. -
Global Refuge is a refugee resettlement program based in Baltimore. It's CEO, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, joins Midday to discuss the latest news regarding immigration. -
'Swimming Pool,' at Creative Alliance through Oct. 11, features visual art that brings visitors into the water and captures the motion of the ocean.
