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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The head of the non-profit company that runs 6 of the city's historic public food markets reflects on their storied past and their important role in Baltimore's redevelopment. -
The public health advocate joins us to discuss the triple infection threats we're facing as winter nears; plus, some cannabis caveats as MD voters consider legalizing recreational marijuana. -
The internationally acclaimed guitarist previews his Saturday night concert at UMBC's Linehan Hall. -
Our monthly look at films and filmmaking, with Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and MD Film Festival founder Jed Dietz. -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck sizes up Everyman's timely new staging of the classic drama about political ambition and treachery in the family of a 12th-century English king. -
The award-winning Baltimore photographer talks about his newly published collection of images inspired by the struggle for racial equality. -
In this month's Midday with the Mayor, Baltimore's top executive answers our questions about key issues facing the city. -
In her new book of essays, the scholar and analyst explores Blacks' political destinies and their complex ties to the Democratic party. -
MAG Partners CEO MaryAnne Gilmartin discusses her firm's work on the massive South Baltimore development project; then, Baltimore Business Journal's Melody Simmons updates us on other key projects around town. -
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The editor and a reporter for a new Business Insider series discuss the potential risks of America's aging leadership; then, the director of the Hopkins Human Aging Project weighs in with the latest research.
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