Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Born in New York City, he covered international affairs for more than three decades at Columbia Broadcasting System News, National Broadcasting Company News and The New York Times. Nearly half that time he was based abroad in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Paris and Saigon. The two brothers also co-authored The Last Ambassador, a novel about the collapse of Saigon in 1975.
In 1984, Kalb was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and spokesman for the State Department.
lieutenant was the first time that a journalist who covered the State Department has been named as its spokesman. Kalb quit this post two years later to protest what he called "the reported disinformation program" conducted by the Reagan Administration against the Libyan leader Colonel
Muammar al-Gaddafi. Today, Kalb travels widely as a lecturer and moderator.
He was the founding anchor and a panelist on the weekly Cable News Network program Reliable Sources for a decade.