Kalb Report reception and award ceremony set for April 22

The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute will host a reception and award ceremony on Saturday, April 22, at 3 p.m. to honor Marvin Kalb, who for 28 years has moderated the Club’s acclaimed  "The Kalb Report," series and Michael Freedman, executive producer for the entire run of 103 programs.

Reservations for this free event can be made online.

During the reception, the series will be honored with the New York Festivals International Broadcasting Awards 2023 Lifetime Achievement Honor.

For nearly three decades, “The Kalb Report” brought prominent journalists, policy makers and thought leaders to the Club to examine issues at the forefront of the role of the press in promoting and defending democracy. Programs often attracted an audience of hundreds of Club members, journalists and college students. It was continued as a virtual program during the Covid pandemic.

The final program brought together Kalb and his long-time friend and fellow network news correspondent Ted Koppel for a look back, around and ahead at the challenges for both journalism and our democracy. It included clips from past programs as well as photos highlighting Kalb’s 30 year-career as an international correspondent for CBS and NBC News.

It aired on Maryland Public Television, which serves as presenting station, on Feb. 18 and will be distributed nationally by American Public Television to public broadcasting stations across the country. It is now available on the Club’s website.

The program was titled “The Kalb Report: Good Night and Good luck,” which was the signoff for broadcast news legend Edward R. Murrow, the creator of broadcast news reporting during World War II, and the man who hired Kalb to launch his career at CBS News.

The Kalb Report has been a joint project of the Club, the NPC Journalism Institute, University of Maryland Global Campus, the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center and the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.

It is underwritten by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, a division of the Oklahoma-based Inasmuch Foundation, which will be funding work to archive and promote the entire series.