 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. Bernard 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.
Bernard Kalb was the correspondent for Global Rivals, a
four-part series on US-Soviet relations broadcast on PBS. In 1990, he moderated
a live TV program, originating in Manila and transmitted via satellite
throughout Asia, linking leaders of five Asian countries.
Bernard Kalb is co-author, with his brother Marvin Kalb, of
two books: Kissinger, and The Last Ambassador, a novel about the
collapse of Saigon in 1975. Bernard Kalb has written for such publications as
The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Smithsonian, and Newsweek on subjects
ranging from foreign affairs to the collecting of Chinese porcelain and
antiques.
Bernard Kalb was appointed by the State Department to the
U.S. delegation of the Anti-Incitement Committee associated with the Middle East
peace process. The trilateral committee aims to find ways of preventing
incitement to violence or hatred between Israelis and Palestinians. Bernard Kalb
delights audiences as a lively, witty and humorous critic on the media.
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