Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb to address media war coverage at press conference at Fairfield University | Press Releases

Editors: Television and radio reporters are invited to attend the press conference.

What: Fairfield University will host a press conference with Marvin Kalb, former chief diplomatic correspondent for NBC News and CBS News and an astute observer of American media. Mr. Kalb will address media war coverage in Iraq. The press conference will precede a 3 p.m. lecture sponsored by Fairfield University's Open VISIONS Forum.

When: Sunday, March 23 at 2:20 p.m.

Where: Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

Contact: Reporters interested in attending the press conference or the lecture should contact Dana Ambrosini, assistant director of media relations at Fairfield University, at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2726, or (203) 209-9849.

Over a distinguished 30-year broadcast career, Kalb served as a key correspondent for both NBC News and CBS News and was the moderator of "Meet the Press." Since leaving his full-time television post, his interest in the medium has not waned: He was the first director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. He is now the center's senior fellow and a lecturer in Public Policy and faculty chair of the Washington programs of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. A frequent commentator on PBS' "NewsHour" and other radio and television programs, Kalb continues to produce provocative lecture series and television programs about politics and journalism.