Bob Calo
Senior LecturerPhone: 510-643-4645
Email: Bob Calo
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
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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.
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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
- Spring 2010: Reporting for Television
- Spring 2010: Longform 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