Rob Sivak
Contributing producer, MiddayRob Sivak is a contributing producer for Midday, with host Tom Hall. Recently retired after a seven-year stint as Midday's senior 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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Our Midday in the Neighborhood series continues with a view of Baltimore's treasured Italian enclave, with Clara Longo de Frietas, neighborhood reporter for WYPR's news partner, the Baltimore Banner, and third-generation resident Mary Ann Campanella. -
The director of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement discusses efforts underway to reduce Baltimore's endemic gun violence, which for the eighth consecutive year has claimed more than 300 lives. -
Before Stan Stovall retired from his long service as a local TV anchor, the iconic newsman joined us to discuss the changes he's seen in Baltimore, and in journalism, since his first broadcast here in 1978. -
Baltimore chefs John Shields of Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen and Damian Mosley of Blacksauce Kitchen drop by Studio A, with Rosemary Hall on Zoom, to offer Thanksgiving Day food tips and a few of their favorite recipes. -
The Goucher Poll director, professor and political pundit discusses her probing new analysis of Maryland's improbably successful, two-term Republican governor, as the 2024 presidential season beckons. -
Maryland's Democratic junior senator discusses how the shifting, post-election balance of power in both houses of Congress could impact the Democrats' urgent legislative agenda. -
The popular online grammarian and language consultant answers our burning questions about punctuation and proper word usage. -
An informal poll of WYPR/Midday listeners reveals strong disapproval for Port Covington's new name: "Baltimore Peninsula" -
University of Baltimore law professor Dave Jaros discusses a judge's decision Thursday to try as an adult the 15 year-old squeegee worker charged with the July 7th murder of Timothy Reynolds. -
Our theater crtic, J. Wynn Rousuck, spotlights the touring company production of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," now rocking the stage at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre.
