What is Bernard Kalb?
{{Infobox person |name = Bernard Kalb |image = Bernard Kalb (cropped).jpg |caption = Kalb, {{circa|1985}} |birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. |birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|2|4}} |death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|8|1922|2|4}} |death_place = [[North Bethesda, Maryland]], U.S. |education = [[City College of New York]], [[Harvard University]] |occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|moderator|media critic|lecturer|author}} |family = [[Marvin Kalb]] (brother) }} '''Bernard Kalb''' (February 4, 1922 – January 8, 2023)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_oh2AAAAMAAJ&q=Bernard+Kalb+February+4,+1922 Profile of Bernard Kalb]</ref> was an American journalist, moderator, media critic, lecturer, and author. He was born in [[New York City]]. He covered international affairs for more than thirty years at [[CBS News]], [[NBC News]] and ''[[The New York Times]]''. His brother, [[Marvin Kalb]], is also a journalist. In 1984, Kalb was appointed [[Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs]] and spokesman for the State Department. It was the first time that a journalist who covered the State Department had been named as its spokesperson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F10612F83C5C0C7A8EDDA80994DC484D81|title=BERNARD KALB NAMED TO POST AT STATE DEPT.|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2 May 2018}}</ref> he died in Maryland of complications of a fall at age 100 ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalb, Bernard}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] [[Category:American centenarians]] [[Category:American war correspondents]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}