Rob Sivak
Interim senior producer, MiddayRob Sivak is interim senior producer for Midday, with host Tom Hall. Recently retired after a seven-year stint as a Midday 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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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new North American touring production of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. -
Sportswriter Jane Leavy's new book is a fact-filled fastball pitch for new rules in baseball to bring more fairness — and fun — back to 'America's pastime.' -
Jazz singer Gabrielle Cavassa, who has toured and recorded with legendary saxophonist Joshua Redman, previews her gig tonight at Keystone Korner. -
'Holding Liat' producer Lance Kramer discusses the powerful new documentary about the family of an Israeli-American woman kidnapped by Hamas fighters on October 7. 2023 -
Staffing shortages risk burnout for the dedicated firefighters of the Baltimore Fire Department. Fire Chief James Wallace says a new approach to recruitment is showing signs of success. -
The Baltimore Banner, a news partner with Baltimore Public Media, is the largest newsroom in Maryland. -
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Darnyle Wharton, a Baltimore Peace Movement co-organizer, joins us to discuss the latest Peace Promise Weekend, and the ongoing effort to help communities touched by violence to heal. -
A wave of states across the nation are considering a mid-census redrawing of congressional lines. Maryland may soon be one of them. -
Full Circle Dance Company was founded in 2000 and approaches each year with a different theme for its choreography.
