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 veteran White House correspondent discusses her new ode to the extraordinary power and influence of Black women in the American democratic experiment. -
Our theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck gives us all the facts about the Frederick, MD company's new production of the challenging and timely 2018 play. -
The annual celebration of comics culture, first held in 2000, runs this Friday through Sunday at the Baltimore Convention Center, and its founder and chief promoter tells us what's in store for attendees. -
The attorney, education activist and Queen Anne County resident discusses her campaign for MD Lt. Gov. as running mate to Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox. -
The Indian-American civil engineer, political activist and former MD Delegate talks about her campaign with gubernatorial running mate Wes Moore to bring Democratic leadership back to Annapolis. -
The politics & government reporter for WYPR's partner news organization surveys the political landscape in Maryland and key battlegrounds ahead of the crucial November 8 midterms. -
MD's 4th District congressman and former Lt. governor discusses his campaign for MD Attorney General, and his goals in becoming the state's top law-enforcement authority. -
The lawyer and former radio talk show host, making her second run at elective office, discusses her Republican campaign to represent MD's 3rd district in the US House, and her views on local, state, and national issues. -
The incumbent Democrat discusses his campaign for a ninth term representing Maryland Dist. 3 in the US House, and his stands on local, state, national and international issues. -
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflick and Politico's White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire discuss the challenges of reporting on the growing right-wing extremism and disinformation in American politics.
