Bernard Kalb Biography

Bernard Kalb is a veteran journalist media critic and author. He was the founding anchor and a panelist on the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources for a decade.
From Moscow to Peking from Antarctica to Saigon from Jerusalem on the “diplomatic shuttle” to other Middle East capitals Bernard Kalb has traveled the globe for more than three decades as a correspondent covering world affairs for CBS News NBC News and The New York Times. Beyond his experience in both print and television journalism he also has had the unique advantage of seeing the world from “the other side of the podium” having served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs and as a spokesman for the State Department for two years until October 1986.
Kalb travels widely as a lecturer and moderator—at home and abroad — on subjects ranging from U.S. foreign policy to the media. Since 1997 he has moderated panels for The Freedom Forum on the state of the media in countries around the world. His travels have taken him across the globe including New Delhi for a U.S.-India media conference and as a correspondent for a PBS television documentary on India; Rio for a television documentary on the Earth Summit; Moscow for a conference that included a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev just days before his resignation; Bali for The Asia Society to moderate a panel on global economy; Budapest for The International Media Fund’s seminar on government-press relations; and Istanbul for the World Business Council.

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