Bob Calo

Senior Lecturer
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Bob Calo began his career in television at KQED in San Francisco, where he produced daily news and documentaries for the local and national PBS audience. He moved to New York to join ABC News “Primetime Live,” and then to NBC News as a broadcast producer. Calo produced stories throughout the U.S. and foreign countries, including assignments in Pakistan, Chile, Croatia, Kenya, and Somalia. His work has been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, IRE, and National Headliner awards, among others. As an independent producer, he produced a documentary profile of the late landscape historian J.B. Jackson for PBS. Calo joined the faculty in 2001 and continues to write and produce for the national broadcast audience. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s in broadcast communication arts from San Francisco State University.

Published Stories:

Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation

Joan Shorenstein Fellowship

Tracing the cultural, political and demographic roots of audience disengagement and mistrust of the media, J-School senior lecturer Bob Calo examines the role of journalists in a new paper. Calo researched and wrote the paper while a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School during the spring semester.

CNN Broadcasts Student Work: The US Military Abroad

CNN

CNN will broadcast an hour special this Friday night at 8 and 11PM, PST, entitiled 'Beyond the Frontlines.' The television reports were produced by Berkeley students who took part in the News21 fellowship last year. Reporting on the US Military Abroad, and charged with developing innovating storytelling approaches, our television and multi-media teams reported on the Defense Department's far flung new strategy. The CNN hour will include work by '06 graduates Lee Wang, Emily Taguchi, Najlae Benmbarek, Aaron Selverston, Aliza Nadi, and Cerissa Tanner. The newsinitative web site includes multi-media work by '06 Catherine Price, Matt Vree, Kim Perry, and Vanessa Gregory.

Breaking Away

MSNBC

For MSNBC, Professor Bob Calo produces an interactive streaming video version of a Dateline NBC segment produced on four families who moved out of housing projects and into the suburbs.

Courses Taught by Bob Calo:

Fall 2012: Longform Television

Fall 2012: Reporting the News -Calo/Simons

Fall 2012: Reporting the News -Calo/Simons--Lab

Spring 2012: Longform Television

Spring 2012: Reporting for Television

Fall 2011: Longform Television

Fall 2011: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2011: Reporting the News -Calo/Simons/Rogers

Fall 2011: Reporting the news-lab--Calo/Simons/Rogers

Fall 2010: Reporting the News -Calo/Snow/Griffin

Fall 2010: Reporting the news-lab--Calo/Snow/Griffin

Fall 2010: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2010: Longform Television

Fall 2010: Master's Project Seminar

Spring 2010: Longform Television

Spring 2010: Reporting for Television

Spring 2010: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2009: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2009: Longform Television

Spring 2009: Reporting for Television

Spring 2009: Longform Television

Spring 2008: Longform Television

Spring 2008: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2007: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2007: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2007: Longform Television

Spring 2007: Advanced Reporting for Television

Spring 2007: Long-form Television

Spring 2007: Master's Project Seminar

Spring 2007: News 21: Religion

Fall 2006: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2006: Longform Television

Fall 2006: Master's Project Seminar

Spring 2006: Reporting for Television

Spring 2006: Long-form Television

Spring 2006: News 21: The US Military Abroad

Spring 2006: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2005: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2005: Longform Television

Fall 2005: Master's Project Seminar

Spring 2005: Advanced Reporting for TV

Spring 2005: Longform Television

Spring 2005: Master's Project Seminar

Spring 2002: Metropolis: Politics of Urban Growth

Spring 2002: Advanced Reporting for TV

Spring 2002: TV Magazine

Fall 2001: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2001: TV Magazine

Spring 2001: Advanced Reporting for TV

Fall 2000: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2000: Advanced TV News

Fall 2004: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2004: Longform Television

Fall 2004: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2004: The Presidential Reporting Project

Spring 2004: The Presidential Reporting Project

Spring 2004: Advanced Reporting for TV

Spring 2004: Longform Television

Spring 2004: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2003: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2003: Longform Television

Fall 2003: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2003: The Presidential Reporting Project

Spring 2003: Master's Project Seminar

Spring 2003: Longform Television

Spring 2003: Metropolis: Mining Votes in NH

Spring 2003: Advanced Reporting for TV

Fall 2002: Master's Project Tutorial

Fall 2002: Political Reporting

Fall 2002: Introduction to TV News

Fall 2002: TV Magazine