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 theater critic sizes up the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre's first live stage production, staged in a Dundalk cineplex, of three of Poe's well-known tales of suspense and horror. -
The two social activist lawyers discuss their efforts - through Warnken's Center for Criminal Justice Reform (UBalt Law) and Watts's "Rebuild, Overcome and Rise" (ROAR) Center (UMB) - to better assist Baltimore communities and individuals victimized by violent crime. -
The Banner's education reporter discusses the candidates for the Baltimore County School Board and key issues facing county schools, from transit and teacher pay to student safety. -
The incumbent Baltimore County Executive, elected in 2018, discusses his campaign for a second term and his vision for Baltimore County. -
The acclaimed writer discusses his new collection of short stories that explore ideas of power, ethics and justice in a post-democratic America. -
The veteran government reporter for the Maryland Daily Record explains some of the key ballot referenda that Maryland voters will be deciding in next month's general election. -
In her new book, the veteran reporter chronicles Trump's origins and his relentless - and continuing - pursuit of celebrity and power. -
The former foreign correspondent-turned-novelist has written another in his series of international thrillers, this one steeped in the political intrigues surrounding the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. -
The prolific Pakistani novelist discusses his latest: a speculative fiction about race, identity and the human capacity for empathy. -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us reviews of two DC productions today, one a revival of a unique exploration of a Renaissance genius, the other a classic Broadway musical getting a lavish new staging.
