UC Berkeley Journalism - Faculty

Robert Calo

SENIOR LECTURER and ASSOCIATE DEAN

Phone: (510) 643-4645

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 bachelors degree in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a masters in broadcast communication arts from San Francisco State University.

Stories by Bob Calo

Breaking Away
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.
Posted January 1, 2002 (Story link no longer active)

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