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What Makes 60 Minutes Tick?
On November 16, CBS News 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager and Correspondent Lesley Stahl joined Marvin Kalb for a behind-the-scenes look at television's most successful news magazine and what it takes to keep 60 Minutes on the air and on top of the ratings.
Lesley Stahl, CBS News 60 Minutes Correspondent
Jeff Fager, CBS News 60 MInutes Executive Producer
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Ink on the Brink: The Future of Print Journalism
On October 5, four top newspaper industry insiders joined Marvin Kalb at the National Press Club to discuss how the venerable print organizations of our time will survive and thrive in the digital age.
David Hunke, President and Publisher, USA Today
Anne Bagamery, Senior Editor, International Herald Tribune
Cynthia Tucker, Columnist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Marcus Brauchli, Executive Editor, The Washington Post
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Down to the Wire: Journalism in Crisis
Four influential news executives came together on Monday, March 23, 2009, at the height of uncertainty to discuss where the profession is headed, and how to lead the current reporting revolution.
Tom Curley, President & CEO, Associated Press
Vivian Schiller, President & CEO, NPR
Alberto Ibargüen, President & CEO, The Knight Foundation Jon Klein, President, CNN
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The Business of Business Reporting
Four of the nation's top business reporters joined moderator Marvin Kalb on Monday, Feb. 9 to explore the current economic crisis and the roles journalists have played in this evolving story.
Steve Pearlstein, The Washington Post
Alexis Glick, Fox Business Network
Diana Henriques, The New York Times
Ali Velshi, CNN
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Play by Play with Bob Costas
NBC and HBO Sports Broadcaster Bob Costas joined Marvin Kalb on Monday, October 13th to discuss the state of sports journalism. From covering America’s national pastime to the Olympic games, the sportscasting icon reflected on the games we play and why they mean so much to us.
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 Journalism, Commentary, and The O’Reilly Factor
On Saturday, September 27, 2008, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly stepped out of the "No Spin Zone" and joined Marvin Kalb to discuss Journalism, Commentary, and The O’Reilly Factor.
The top-rated cable news host took on his critics and opened up about his style, his politics and his impact on broadcasting.
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2007-2008 PROGRAMS |
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 In Search of Truth:
A Conversation on Investigative Reporting with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists
This edition of The Kalb Report probes the craft and impact of investigative journalism with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker and Dana Priest of The Washington Post. From exposing the My Lai massacre and abuse at Abu Ghraib, to uncovering CIA secret prisons and deplorable conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, two of America’s top reporters share their secrets with Marvin Kalb.
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 Covering the World: A Conversation with Christiane Amanpour
From war in the Balkans to a clash of faiths in the Middle East, CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has covered the world. Her 25-year career with CNN has taken her to many of the world’s hotspots including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia and Rwanda and she has interviewed some of the globe’s most prominent world leaders. Amanpour joined Marvin Kalb on March 10, 2008, to offer an in-depth look at reporting on crisis and conflict.
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 Thank You, Mr. President
On November 26, 2007, veteran White House correspondents joined Marvin Kalb to discuss five decades of presidential press coverage. NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory, “First Lady” of the White House press corps Helen Thomas, legendary anchorman Dan Rather and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Sanger of The New York Times took the audience beyond the briefing room for the inside story on the press and the presidency.
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Conversation with Katie Couric on Democracy and
the Press
On September 25, 2007, Katie Couric joined Marvin
Kalb to discuss covering the war in Iraq, ratings
pressure and the role of the television news anchor
in our society.
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2006-2007 PROGRAMS
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 The Future of Journalism
Executives from television, print, and online media
organizations discussed what lies ahead for the
field of journalism on the March 5, 2007, Kalb Report.
The panel discussion featured Ann Marie Lipinski,
senior vice president and editor of The Chicago
Tribune, Sean McManus, president of CBS News
and Sports, Cliff Sloan, publisher of Slate and vice president of business affairs and general
counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive,
and Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall
Street Journal and vice president of Dow Jones
& Company.
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 Arab Journalists - Another Perspective
On Feb. 5 a panel of leading journalists representing
Arab news organizations joined Marvin Kalb to
take a hard look at differing perceptions and
coverage of major news from the Middle East and
around the world, including the war in Iraq and
the Arab-Israeli peace process. The discussion
featured Raghida Dergham, Al Hayat columnist and
senior diplomatic correspondent, Abderrahim Foukara,
Al Jazeera Washington bureau chief, Hisham Melhem,
Al Arabiya senior analyst and consultant, and
Salameh Nematt, PaxArabia president and Al Hayat
columnist.  LISTEN
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 The Bible, the War, and the Media with Author
and Nobel Prize Winner Elie Wiesel
Drawing the largest crowd ever for The Kalb Report, the standing-room-only
Nov. 20 forum at the National Press Club focused
on the Bible, the Iraq war, and the media as well
as intense international situations, such as the
Palestinian homeland issue and anti-Semitic rhetoric
by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. LISTEN
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 Politics, Prose...and Cons-Election
2006
In a special radio edition of The
Kalb Report, hosted by Washington Post Radio,
journalist/scholar Marvin Kalb previewed the 2006
elections with Newsweek Contributing
Editor Eleanor Clift, CNN Senior Political Correspondent
Candy Crowley, CBS Radio News Capitol Hill Correspondent
Bob Fuss, Pew Research Center President Andrew
Kohut, and USA Today Washington Bureau
Chief Susan Page. LISTEN
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 September 11, From News to History: A Conversation
with Ken Burns
On the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Marvin
Kalb and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns explored
the distance necessary (in time and emotion) to
properly place historical perspective on monumental
news stories. Burns said he would need at least
25 years before he took on the subject of Sept.
11 in a documentary. The pair also discussed Burns'
forthcoming World War II documentary, The War,
national politics, and the issue of race in American
society. LISTEN
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2005-2006 PROGRAMS
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 Why Murrow Matters
Casey Murrow, Edward R. Murrow's son, Richard
C. Hottelet, a member of the vaunted Murrow Boys
of WWII and now a GW Welling Presidential Fellow,
Don Hewitt, former Murrow colleague and 60 Minutes creator, and Daniel Schorr, former Murrow colleague
and now a senior news analyst at NPR, joined journalist/scholar
Marvin Kalb, the last correspondent personally hired
at CBS News by Edward R. Murrow, to discuss the
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Journalism's
In-House Critics Speak Out
The Ombudsmen from the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and PBS, Michael Getler, spoke out
on issues ranging from the coverage of the war
in Iraq to the relationship between the media
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Conversation with Thomas Friedman
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas
Friedman shared his opinions on the war in Iraq,
terrorism, globalization, and journalism. TRANSCRIPT
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 Judith
Miller on the Pitfalls of Confidential Sourcing
and Her Departure From The New York Times
Judith Miller discussed
the use of confidential sources in investigative
reporting and her relationship with The New
York Times.
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 Associated
Press President and CEO Tom Curley Discusses "The
Business of News" on The Kalb Report
Tom Curley discussed
how The Associated Press is adapting to current
and future challenges of the news industry. |
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 Rather
Candid About Bush National Guard Story
60 Minutes Correspondent Dan Rather shared his thoughts
about the CBS coverage of President Bush's National
Guard Service and the future of broadcast journalism. LISTEN
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 Panel
Discusses The Value and Values of the M.B.A.
In June The
Wall Street Journal's Ron Alsop, Goldman
Sachs' Edie Hunt, and University of Toronto Rotman
School of Management's Roger Martin discussed
the value of the M.B.A. in today's global business
environment at the 2005 Graduate Management Admission
Council Annual Industry Conference. |
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News Chairman/CEO Roger Ailes Explains the Rise
of FOX News Channel
Roger Ailes discussed
the rise of FOX News Channel, his future goals
at FOX News, and addresses the issue of bias in
the media. LISTEN |
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 We're
Talking Baseball
Tony Tavares, president
of the Washington Nationals, joined host Marvin
Kalb and journalists/authors John Feinstein and
Scott Simon to talk about baseball's return to
Washington, D.C. LISTEN |
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 Panel
Debates Religion, Politics and the Media
CNN's Jeff Greenfield; The New York Times' Adam Nagourney; U.S.
News & World Report 's Michael Barone;
AP's Rachel Zoll; and pollsters Anna Greenberg
and David Winston assembled for post-election
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 Lehrer
Critical of Rather, Networks
As Jim Lehrer sees it, CBS News
Anchor Dan Rather demonstrated poor judgment when
he used what turned out to be unverified documents
as the support for a story criticizing President
George W. Bush’s National Guard service. READ |
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2003-2004
PROGRAMS
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 Clinton
Talks War and Foreign Policy
In a discussion with Sen. Hillary
Clinton (D-NY) that focused primarily on foreign affairs,
the junior senator from New York questioned the Bush
administration’s planning, candor and numbers since
the war on terrorism began after Sept. 11, 2001. READ
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