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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The Maryland state senator's candid new memoir describes how his work as a young apprentice electrician helped turn his life around. -
The former Librarian of Congress and past head of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library discusses her new but familiar role at the Mellon Foundation: advancing public knowledge through libraries and archives. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews a new production of Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog," at Spotlighters Theatre through Oct. 12. -
Wordsmith's multifaceted abilities are on display in his latest albums, which defy genre and carry the full spectrum of human emotion. -
The Baltimore Ravens started their season with some disappoint losses. But fans know this is a team with potential to improve over the course of a season. -
For many Baltimore City public high schoolers, the Career and Technical Education program opens career pathways through internships, apprenticeships and work-based learning. -
Ian McEwan, author of Atonement, writes a story that spans from the recent past to the distant future. -
We The People follows the pitched debate over the U.S. Constitution throughout its history. -
Peter Beinart is the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. He joins Midday to discuss his thoughtful, piercing new book on a future of equality for Palestinians and Jews. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Piano Lesson, at Everyman Theater.
