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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Baltimore history and preservation advocate Johns Hopkins talks about 'Five Minutes of Baltimore History," the new feature he's hosting on WYPR. -
On the Midday Healthwatch, public health advocate Dr. Leana Wen assesses the damage being done by federal cuts to medical research funding, and the expanding role of AI in medicine. -
Ongoing legal preceding will determine whether SNAP benefits are funded through the government shutdown. -
Midday's theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new production of Yasmina Reza's 'Art' at the Everyman Theatre. -
As BMoreArt publishes its 20th bi-annual issue, founder/publisher Cara Ober and Managing Editor Chelsea Lemon Fetzer mark a decade of arts community-building and journalism. -
Rep. Sarah Elfreth says negotiations over the shutdown are made harder by lawmakers not being assembled in Washington, D.C. -
Christie Dashiell, who plays the Keystone Korner Baltimore tonight, is a singer/songwriter whose latest CD earned a 2025 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. -
The Maryland Data Centers Analysis Group is looking to make better information available to the public and policymaker. -
The number of data centers across the country nearly doubled between 2021 and 2024. We take a look at Maryland's effort to attract this lucrative industry to the state. -
John Davis, host of Maryland Public Television's Motorweek, joins Midday to talk shop; from emergency road site kits to domestic automobile manufacturing.
