{{Short description|American academic}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Marvin Kalb | image = Marvin Kalb.jpg | caption = Kalb in 2001 | birth_name = Marvin Leonard Kalb | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1930|6|9}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = [[City College of New York]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<ref>[http://kalb.gwu.edu/aboutkalb.html About Marvin Kalb] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828192551/http://kalb.gwu.edu/aboutkalb.html |date=2008-08-28 }} at ''[[The Kalb Report]]'' from the [[George Washington University]] website</ref> | occupation = {{bulleted|News analyst|Author|Senior fellow of the [[Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy|Shorenstein Center]]|Moderator of ''The Kalb Report''|Senior adviser at [[Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting]]}} | alias = | title = | family = | spouse = | domestic_partner = | children = | relatives = [[Bernard Kalb]] (brother) | credits = Moderator of ''[[Meet the Press]]'',<br />founding director, [[Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy|Shorenstein Center]] | URL = }}
'''Marvin Leonard Kalb''' (born June 9, 1930) is an American [[journalist]]. He was the founding director of the [[Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy]] and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of [[Harvard University]]. Kalb is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at [[The George Washington University|George Washington University]] and a member of the [[Atlantic Community]] Advisory Board.
==Career== Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter{{cn|date=July 2024}} for [[CBS News]] and [[NBC News]]. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by [[Edward R. Murrow]] to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the "[[Murrow Boys]]." His work at CBS landed him on [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[master list of Nixon's political opponents|"enemies list"]]. At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of ''[[Meet the Press]]''. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother [[Bernard Kalb|Bernard]] worked alongside him.
Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books and two best-selling{{cn|date=July 2024}} novels (''In the National Interest'' and ''The Last Ambassador'').
Kalb hosts ''The Kalb Report'', a monthly discussion of [[Journalism ethics and standards|media ethics and responsibility]] at the [[National Press Club (USA)|National Press Club]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] sponsored by [[George Washington University]].<ref>[http://kalb.gwu.edu/ The Kalb Report] at ''The Kalb Report'' from the [[George Washington University]] website</ref> He was a news analyst for [[Fox News]], and is a contributor to [[National Public Radio]] and [[America Abroad]]. He is a senior adviser at the [[Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting]].{{cn|date=April 2025}}
==''Haunting Legacy''== In ''Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama'' (Brookings Institution Press 2011), Marvin Kalb collaborated with his daughter, Deborah Kalb, in an attempt to present a history of presidential decision-making on one crucial issue: in light of the [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] experience, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The Kalbs participated in a webcast interview of the book at the [[Pritzker Military Library]] on October 27, 2011.<ref>[http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/marvin-kalb.aspx Webcast Interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704170836/https://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/marvin-kalb.aspx |date=2013-07-04 }} on ''Haunting Legacy'' at the [[Pritzker Military Library]] on October 27, 2011</ref>
==Partial bibliography== * ''Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War'' (2021), Brookings Institution Press, {{ISBN|978-0815738961}} * ''Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy'' (2018), Brookings Institution Press, {{ISBN|978-0815735304}} * ''The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia'' (2017), Brookings Institution Press, {{ISBN|9780815731610}} * ''Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War'' (2015), [[Brookings Institution Press]], {{ISBN|978-0-8157-2664-7}}. * ''The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed'' (2013), Brookings Institution Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8157-2493-3}}. * ''Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama'' (2011), Brookings Institution Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8157-2131-4}}. * ''The Media and the War on Terrorism'' (2003), Brookings Institution Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8157-3581-6}}.<ref>[http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2003/mediaandthewaronterrorism.aspx ''The Media and the War on Terrorism''] from the [[Brookings Institution Press]]</ref> * ''One Scandalous Story: [[Lewinsky scandal|Clinton, Lewinsky]], and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism'' (2001, {{ISBN|0-684-85939-4}}) * ''The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press'' (1994, {{ISBN|0-226-42299-2}}) * ''The Last Ambassador'' (1981, {{ISBN|0-316-48222-6}}) * ''In the National Interest'' (1977, {{ISBN|0-671-22656-8}}) * ''Kissinger'' (1974, {{ISBN|978-0316482219}}) * ''Roots of Involvement: the U.S. in Asia, 1784–1971'' (1971, {{ISBN|0-393-05440-3}}) * ''Dragon in the Kremlin: A Report on the Russian-Chinese Alliance'' (1961)
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828192551/http://kalb.gwu.edu/aboutkalb.html About Marvin Kalb] at ''The Kalb Report'' from the [[George Washington University]] website * [http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/marvin-kalb Marvin Kalb's Profile at Harvard University] from the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] website *[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second_Presidential_Debate_with_President_Reagan_and_Walter_Mondale,_October_21,_1984.webm Reagan Mondale debate October 21, 1984] on Wikimedia Commons * {{C-SPAN|3868}}
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