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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Luke Broadwater, New York Times White House correspondent, discusses the uproar over the East Wing demolition and President Trump's travels to Asia during the continuing government shut down. -
The new law governs the way private companies can gather and store the data of Marylanders. -
The acclaimed ensemble of traditional musicians performs live in our studio, ahead of concerts tonight through Monday in Annapolis, Baltimore and Rockville. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Liza Jessie Peterson's powerful one-woman show about mass incarceration, at Baltimore's Center Stage. -
WYPR's statehouse reporter Sarah Petrowich covered losses in revenue in Maryland from the government shutdown and Gov. Wes Moore's efforts to right the state's budget. -
A trio of reporters from the Baltimore Banner covered how New York-based investors used a new type of loan to buy up housing in disinvested neighborhoods. -
Valuation of vacant property might not sound very exciting, but an accurate assessment is crucial to investment and growth in Baltimore's struggle neighborhoods. -
Dr. Blain's book illuminates the lives of Black women activists in America — some well-known, many unsung — who've fought for human rights, at home and abroad. -
Jonathon Heyward, Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2023, discusses his extended tenure and the future of the BSO. -
Dr. Leigh's new book offers tips on turning life's daily stress into a catalyst for positive change.
