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 former MD delegate discusses her campaign to represent the Eastern Shore district in Congress, and her bid to unseat its incumbent Republican, Rep. Andy Harris. -
The psychologist and educator shares her insights into the way we form and maintain close relationships, and why friendships are so essential to our physical and mental health. -
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founding editor of the Marshall Project discusses his new book about America's dysfunctional prison system. -
Nancy Luse, a veteran Frederick journalist, talks about the current exhibition she co-curated of classic B&W news photos from the 1970s-90s, taken by a group of great photojournalists at the Frederick News-Post. -
In another of our series of Conversations with the Candidates: 2022, the three-term GOP Maryland delegate explains his bid to represent the state's sprawling 6th district in the US Congress, and his vision for the region, the state and the country. -
The late great Black soprano — the original "Bess" in the 1935 Broadway premiere of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" — is being saluted by Opera Baltimore with a festival and concert this Saturday. -
Ann Hornady and Jed Dietz - two of Midday's favorite film aficionados - join us again to recap the Toronto International Film Festival and spotlight some of the best new theater and streaming releases. -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Spotlighters Theatre's new production of Katori Hall's 2007 debut drama about love, magic, and chasing artistic dreams. -
Blue Water Baltimore's top water quality monitor discusses steps the city still needs to take to protect its residents from contaminated water. -
On today's Midday with the Mayor, Tom Hall questions Mayor Scott about some key issues facing the city, from reducing gun violence and adding new police districts to improving water quality and new ARPA fund allocations.
