Marvin Kalb Awarded the National Press Club's Prestigious Fourth Estate Award

November 9, 2006


On November 9, 2006, Marvin Kalb became the 34th recipient of the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award. The award is given annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contribution to American journalism.

Marvin Kalb was the first director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. He is currently a Senior Fellow in the Center's Washington office and hosts the monthly program, The Kalb Report at the National Press Club.

Kalb joins a long list of distinguished journalists to be awarded the Fourth Estate Award, including Walter Cronkite (1973); Theodore White (1980); Art Buchwald (1986); David Brinkley (1987); Charles Kuralt (1994); Mary McGrory (1998); Brian Lamb (2002); Tom Brokaw (2003); and William Raspberry (2003).

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