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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Kim Wehle, an author, media commentator and University of Baltimore law professor, looks ahead to Monday's start of a potentially historic new term of the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joins Midday to discuss the most pressing issues in city hall. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new touring production of "Water for Elephants," the hit Broadway musical now playing at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. -
Baltimore reaches a new PILOT agreement with the city's large learning institutions and hospitals. Payments will reach $12 million a year, eventually. The previous agreement saw payments of $6 million annually. -
Baltimore City's Recreation and Parks Department oversees a diverse array of facilities and recreational spaces. -
The dulcet-voiced broadcaster says he plans to stay in touch with his audience through his writing, cabaret singing and playing front-man for the band, Pink Martini. -
In an exclusive Midday interview, the veteran Democrat and 5th District Maryland congressman opines on what he calls the Republican shutdown of the federal government, the new Trump proposal to end the Gaza war and the outlook for Ukraine. -
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.
