Kalb Report wins top broadcasting award

For the second time, the National Press Club's premier forum, "The Kalb Report," won the Gold World Medal in the New York Festival's International Radio Awards Competition.

Host Marvin Kalb and Executive Producer Michael Freedman accepted the award June 22 for their program last October that featured a rare joint appearance by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to talk about their Watergate investigation 40 years after the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon (watch the full interview here).

That program, entitled “Writing History: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Journalism Finest Hour,” attracted more than 600 Club members and students from local universities and aired on Sirius-XM Radio as well as on hundreds of Public Broadcasting stations. It was produced just one day before the death of The Washington Post’s legendary Executive Editor, Ben Bradlee, who directed the investigation while fending off constant criticism.

In 2012 The Kalb Report won a Gold Medal for its program “Anchoring September 11 — The Day and the Decade,” which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States and featured former network news anchors Dan Rather, Charles Gibson, Brit Hume, and Frank Sesno. That program went on to win the overall Grand Award in the New York Festivals competition.

Launched in 1994, "The Kalb Report" recently completed its 21st season at the Press Club. It is underwritten by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and is co-produced by the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the University of Maryland University College, George Washington University, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center and The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University Of Maryland.