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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Author and legal scholar Kim Wehle reviews some of the potentially blockbuster cases the High Court will be hearing and deciding in the new term; plus, Trump's mounting legal challenges. -
Democratic Delegate Brooke Lierman (Dist. 46) and Harford County Executive Barrry Glassman, a Republican, join us to debate their competing visions for Maryland Comptroller, the state's top tax and finance official. -
The public health advocate says the COVID pandemic really is over, but the coronavirus and its variants remain a deadly threat we should try diligently to avoid. -
The bestselling novelist's latest work has been selected by Maryland Humanities as 2022's One Maryland One Book, and the author joins us to talk about it. -
In her first novel, the anti-racist activist and University of Maryland social scientist imagines a dystopian future in which the imminent takeover of the US government by white supremacists sparks an armed Black and Brown rebellion. -
As part of Midday's Conversations with the Candidates 2022 series, David Harding and Cathy White, the Working Class Party candidates for the state's top office, discuss their positions on key issues, and their vision for Maryland. -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Baltimore center Stage's new production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 drama about the people in a fictional American small town. -
Washington Post national political correspondent Theo Meyer discusses some of the significant developments in the nation's shifting political landscape, as the January 6th Committee prepares to wrap its investigation, and crucial mid-term elections loom. -
As Stan Stovall retires from his long service as a WBAL-TV11 anchor, the iconic TV newsman discusses the changes he's seen in the city and in journalism since his first broadcast here in 1978. -
City Solicitor Jim Shea, University of Maryland, Baltimore law professor Larry Gibson, former investigative TV reporter Jayne Miller, and Question K proponent Jovani Patterson join us to discuss the ballot initiative to limit the city's top elected officials to two consecutive terms in office.
