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The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has tapped W. Kamau Bell, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning stand-up comedian, as the host of the 45th Annual Documentary Emmy Awards on Sept. 26.

Last year, Bell earned a Children’s & Family Emmy Award for outstanding non-fiction program for “1000% Me: the Growing Up Mixed.”

“When we met Kamau at the Children’s and Family Emmys with his daughters Samaiyah and Juno, we knew he’d be a compelling and entertaining host,” said Adam Sharp, President and CEO of NATAS. “His sensitivity and expertise is a perfect fit, especially for the documentary community.”

The 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards take place live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City and will be streamed live on NATAS’ dedicated viewing platform, as well as be available on the web at watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV and Roku.

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100.

Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, even over a man such as McVeigh — necessary questions about the legitimacy of...

Bernard Kalb, a journalist and Reliable Sources founding co-host with over six decades of experience covering news, has died. He was 100.

Kalb died Sunday at his home in North Bethesda, Md. from complications following a fall, The Washington Post first reported.

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He began his career in the ’40s writing for The New York Times after serving in the Army at the end of World War II.

Bernard Kalb, the veteran print and TV journalist and author who covered a host of world events during a six-decade career, has died. He was 100.

His death was reported Sunday by The Washington Post, which said Kalb died Jan. 8 at his home in North Bethesda, Maryland, from complications following a fall, according to younger brother and fellow journalist Marvin Kalb.

Born in New York City on Feb. 4, 1922, Kalb graduated from City College of New York in 1942. He then served in the U.S. Army before at the end of World War II, joining The New York Times in 1946 to cover Southeast Asia and later the United Nations from New York City.

As as a globe-trotting correspondent, Kalb in 1962 jumped to TV and covered world affairs for CBS News from Hong Kong. From that vantage point, he traveled to China to chronicle President Richard Nixon’s historic cultural opening trip to that...

Veteran news executive Bill Small, who served as the Washington bureau chief of CBS News and president of NBC News, died on Sunday following a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus, CBS News announced. He was 93.

Small led CBS News’ political coverage from 1962-1974, covering such major events as Watergate, Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement. He pulled together a team of reporters from within CBS that included Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb, Dan Schorr, Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid, and made new hires including Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Bernard Shaw, Bernard Kalb and Bill Moyers.

He also, CBS noted, championed a number of women in his time as Washington bureau chief, hiring Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung, Lesley Stahl, Martha Teichner, Rita Braver and Susan Spencer.

“Bill Small was a hero to journalism,” CBS News president Susan Zirinsky said in a statement. “He hired me as a 20-year-old college student to...

Veteran news executive Bill Small passed away on Sunday after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus. The former CBS News Washington Bureau Chief, NBC News President, United Press International President and Chairman of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, was 93.

Small served as CBS’ Washington Bureau Chief from 1962 to 1974 and formed a team of journalists that would go on to dominate political coverage throughout the era of the Vietnam War and Watergate. The roster he recruited from within CBS included Marvin Kalb, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Dan Schorr and Eric Sevareid. New hires at the time, CBS said, included Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Bernard Shaw, Bernard Kalb and Bill Moyers. CBS also noted Small championed the hiring of women including Lesley Stahl, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung, Susan Zirinsky, Martha Teichner, Rita Braver and Susan Spencer.

“Bill Small was a hero to journalism,” said CBS News president Zirinsky in a statement.

Bill Small, the former Washington bureau chief for CBS News and president of NBC News, died Sunday in a New York hospital after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced. He was 93.

Small led CBS' news operations in the nation's capital from 1962-74. He recruited Eric Sevareid, Marvin Kalb, Daniel Schorr, Harry Reasoner and Dan Rather from within the division and gave many producers and reporters their first commercial network news positions; those included Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Bernard Shaw, Bill Moyers, Bernard Kalb and Tom Bettag.

Meanwhile, Diane ...

Los Angeles (AP) — Laura Poitras' skill and boldness as a documentary filmmaker have gained her Oscar and Emmy nominations, Sundance Film Festival honors and a public TV showcase, even if her work fell short of making a "Super Size Me" splash.

But her role as the first point of contact for disclosures about U.S. surveillance programs has drawn the glare of attention to the independent filmmaker who, abruptly, has pushed documentaries deeper into the realm of journalistic immediacy.

For peers and backers of Poitras, the 2012 recipient of a $500,000 "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, it's unsurprising that she has seized a story worth telling. However, her crucial involvement with a confidential source and two newspapers on the same big exclusive is extraordinary.

"She's incredibly driven and determined and she doesn't let obstacles get in the way," said Simon Kilmurry, executive producer of PBS' documentary series "Pov," a home to Poitras' work.

Los Angeles — Laura Poitras' skill and boldness as a documentary filmmaker have gained her Oscar and Emmy nominations, Sundance Film Festival honors and a public TV showcase, even if her work fell short of making a "Super Size Me" splash.

But her role as the first point of contact for disclosures about U.S. surveillance programs has drawn the glare of attention to the independent filmmaker who, abruptly, has pushed documentaries deeper into the realm of journalistic immediacy.

For peers and backers of Poitras, the 2012 recipient of a $500,000 "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, it's unsurprising that she has seized a story worth telling. However, her crucial involvement with a confidential source and two newspapers on the same big exclusive is extraordinary.

"She's incredibly driven and determined and she doesn't let obstacles get in the way," said Simon Kilmurry, executive producer of PBS' documentary series "Pov," a home to Poitras' work.

Rupert Murdoch, unlike many CEOs, did not make his reputation, or build his business, as an outside man—a smooth talking, limelight-seeking, frequently speechifying, walking-advertisement for his company and products. More naturally, Murdoch has glowered and cursed and been entirely uninterested in what people think about him. He has seen his job as beating the world, not convincing it. But, curiously, he’s now giving talks and testimonials at every opportunity. The other day, he was in Washington for a public interview with Marvin Kalb (a journalist even older than Murdoch himself), largely about how newspapers ought to stamp out search engines. Now whereas those sales-oriented, glad-handing CEOs usually enjoy public appearance and are good at them, Murdoch is terribly resistant. He’s incredibly nervous before each speech; he tries to practice, but with great frustration and great recriminations toward whomever got him to agree to do it. As often...

By Ira Teinowitz

News Corp. Chairman-ceo Rupert Murdoch described himself as “maybe a radical” Tuesday night and accused the News York Times of being too close to the Obama administration.

“I have great respect for the Times, except it does have very clearly an agenda,” Murdoch said in an interview at the National Press Club in Washington with Marvin Kalb. “You can see it very clearly in the way they choose their stories, what they put on Page 1 -- anything that Mr. Obama wants.” <img alt="" style="margin: 15px; height: 370px; width: 275px; float: left;" src="/files/u...

Showtime has assembled a panel of experts for a companion program to its upcoming movie The Reagans. A roundtable discussion concerning the film's fairness and accuracy will feature Marvin Kalb, senior fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University; Martin Anderson, a former economic advisor to Ronald Reagan; Carl Sferrazza Anthony, one of the film's producers; Lou Cannon, who authored five books about Reagan's life; and Linda Chavez, a political analyst at Fox News. Controversy: The Reagans will air the day after the Nov. 30 debut of the film, which was originally scheduled to air on CBS but was licensed to Showtime after it kicked up controversy.

NEW YORK -- Ed Bliss, a journalist and teacher who spent 25 years at CBS News during its golden era and served as a producer, editor and writer for Edward R. Murrow, has died. He was 90. He died Nov. 25 of a pulmonary disorder at a Virginia hospital. Bliss mentored a generation of journalism students and co-authored Writing News for Broadcast (1971), which many in the business consider to be the definitive book on news writing. He also was the first news editor on "CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite." Bliss joined CBS News 1943 as part of the second generation of the so-called Murrow Boys, who worked closely with the iconic newsman alongside such other broadcasting immortals as Alexander Kendrick, George Poll, Marvin Kalb, Daniel Schorr and David Schoenbrun. It was Bliss who handed Cronkite the famous dispatch on Nov. 22, 1963, from which Cronkite informed the country that President Kennedy had died. In 1968, Bliss left CBS to begin the broadcast journalism program at American University in Washington, where he taught a new generation of news people. Bliss won many honors during his lifetime, including the Paul White Award from the Radio Television News Directors Assn. He graduated from Yale University in 1935 and worked in newspapers for Scripps Howard in Ohio and Texas before coming to CBS. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Anne and Tom Mascolino, of Washington.