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September 2007 Journalist/Scholar Named GW Welling Presidential Fellow
Journalist and scholar Marvin Kalb has accepted a two-year appointment as a GW James Clark Welling Presidential Fellow. Kalb, the last correspondent personally hired at CBS News by the legendary Edward R. Murrow, will moderate a series of four forums on democracy and the press in the coming academic year. The forums, part of GW’s highly acclaimed Kalb Report series, will take place at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., before audiences comprising GW students and members of the press. The first forum is scheduled for Sept. 25. “Marvin Kalb has always led by example,” says GW President Steven Knapp. “His accomplishments as both a journalist and an educator have infused generations of reporters with the knowledge, desire, and courage to strive for excellence. It is an honor and a pleasure to continue our long association with Mr. Kalb.” Since 1994, GW, Harvard, and the National Press Club have produced 56 forums in the Kalb Report series on issues at the intersection of the press and public policy. Guests have included Walter Cronkite, Roger Ailes, Jim Lehrer, Dan Rather, Ken Burns, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Ted Koppel, and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel. Kalb will collaborate on his GW activities with School of Media and Public Affairs Director Lee Huebner and Vice President for Communications Michael Freedman, who serves as executive producer for The Kalb Report. The series is underwritten by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and will be broadcast this year on CBS Radio Network, New England Cable News, GWTV, and a number of public television stations across the country. In a 30-year career in broadcast journalism, Kalb has served as chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS and NBC News, moderator of Meet the Press, and director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Among his many honors are two Peabody Awards, the DuPont Prize from Columbia University, and more than a half-dozen Overseas Press Club Awards. The Welling Presidential Fellowship is named for James Clark Welling, who was president of GW for most of the last quarter of the 19th century. The Welling Presidential Fellowships bring internationally distinguished scholars to GW to contribute to the intellectual life of students and faculty. For more information about The Kalb Report, visit kalb.gwu.edu.
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