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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On this pre-holiday edition of our Smart Nutrition series, a licensed nutritionist offers tips on managing our weight and checking our cravings during a season filled with food temptations. -
The genre-defying musician, rapper, poet and podcaster discusses what fuels her many passions, and previews her Thursday night concert at Baltimore's Ottobar. -
Mayor Brandon Scott's initiative engages city, business and community leaders — and city youths — to solve the decades-old problem of squeegee workers. Three key players join us to share their ideas on how they plan to do it. -
The celebrated LA-based vocalist talks about her debut CD and her passion for jazz. -
Our Midday in the Neighborhood series continues, in partnership with the Baltimore Banner, with an Allendale resident who felt the pull of her childhood home. -
Washington Post national political correspondent Eugene Scott on the epic struggle for power within the GOP as Trump weighs another presidential run. -
Defeated Democratic congressional candidate Heather Mizeur on lessons learned; Banner reporter Pamela Wood on MD governor-elect Wes Moore, and Post national correspondent Theo Meyer on shifting power in DC . -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews playwright Jordan E. Cooper's wildly comic satire on being Black in America. -
The director of Hopkins' Berman Institute of Bioethics discusses so-called "dual-use research of concern" and the dark side of biological research. -
With most key state and local races called, we survey MD election results with veteran political reporters Jayne Miller and Maryland Matters' Josh Kurtz.
