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Marvin Kalb Biography

Marvin Kalb was the first director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. He is now executive director of the center's office in Washington, D.C. He has appeared regularly on PBS's "NewsHour" and other television and radio programs.

Over a distinguished 30-year broadcast career Marvin Kalb served as chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS News and NBC News, and as moderator of "Meet the Press." Among his many honors are two Peabody Awards, the DuPont Prize from Columbia University, and more than a half-dozen Overseas Press Club awards. He has also served as a visiting professor and visiting scholar at GW.

A graduate of the City College of New York, he has an MA from Harvard and was zeroing in on his Ph.D. in Russian history when he suddenly left Cambridge in 1956 for a Moscow assignment with the State Department. He is also the author of two best-selling novels and his latest book is called "One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky and 13 Days That Transformed American Journalism."

 
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