Former CBS and NBC News correspondent Bernard Kalb has passed away after a long career in television journalism. He was 100.
The Washington Post reported that Kalb passed away on January 8 at his home in North Bethesda, Maryland, from “complications from a fall.”
On February 4, 1922, Kalb entered the world. He was born in New York City. After enlisting in the Army, he began his career in journalism at The New York Times after the close of World War II. Later in life, Kalb worked as an overseas TV correspondent for CBS and NBC, covering worldwide news and events.
His appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs came in 1984, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. He eventually resigned as a result of the Reagan administration’s “disinformation campaign” against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Starting in 1993, Kalb hosted the CNN talk show Reliable Sources. He stayed in that role until 1998.
Kalb was a frequent guest on shows like Bicentennial Minutes and CBS News’s Evening News and Sunday Morning with Walter Cronkite and The Bob Braun Show and Scarborough Country.
Hodding Carter III, who worked as a spokesman for the State Department under Jimmy Carter, had this to say about Mr. Kalb to the Los Angeles Times: “It’s gratifying that in a place full of careerists, someone realized that what drew him into government was what pulled him out – integrity.”
After leaving the Post, Mr. Kalb became the first host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” a media criticism program that he ran until he was replaced by Howard Kurtz, a journalist from the network’s rival, the Washington Post.
On February 4, 1922, in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants from czarist Russia, Bernard Kalb entered the world. Both of his parents stayed at home with their kids, although his dad ended up becoming a tailor.
Mr. Kalb entered the Army after graduating in 1942 from City College of New York; he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, where he worked as a journalist under Hammett.
Mr. Kalb started working for the Times in 1946, but despite his “flair” and his desire to become a foreign correspondent, he spent nearly a decade writing for the newspaper’s radio station, WQXR. This was despite the fact that his peers, including the later top editor Arthur Gelb, recognized his talent. Mr. Kalb’s big break came in 1955 when he was sent to Antarctica to cover Operation Deep Freeze, the last of Byrd’s expeditions there.
Bernard Kalb Wife and Children
In 1958, Bernad Kalb married Phyllis Bernstein. In addition to his brother, of Chevy Chase, Md., and his wife, of North Bethesda, survivors include four daughters, Tanah Kalb of Westport, Conn., Marina Kalb of Brookline, Mass., Claudia Kalb of Alexandria, Va., and Sarinah Kalb of Israel; and nine grandchildren.
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