Tonight at 8p.m. Charles Gibson, Brit Hume, Dan Rather, and Frank Sesno will  join moderator Marvin Kalb to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the  September 11 attacks to “discuss the subsequent decade that changed the world.”

The Kalb Report is produced before a live audience in the main ballroom of the National Press Club on the 13th floor of the National Press Building, 14th and F streets, NW, Washington, D.C.

Details…The program begins at 8:00 p.m. Guests are advised to arrive by 7:30 p.m. and must be seated by 7:40 p.m. Seating is first come, first seated.

Don’t feel like going but still want to watch it live? Visit online here.

(h/t Chief Washington Cabbage Patch Correspondent)

• NBC’s Meet the Press: Republican Presidential Candidate and Fmr. Speaker of the House (R-GA) Newt Gingrich; E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post; Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal; Mark Halperin, MSNBC and TIME Magazine; Helene Cooper, The New York Times; Matt Bai, New York Times Magazine.

• CBS’s Face the Nation: House Speaker John Boehner and more from the CBS News town hall with President Obama.

• ABC’s This Week: Gov. Nikki Haley (R) South Carolina; Sheila Bair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Paul Krugman, The New York Times; Roger Altman, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations; Robert Kagan, The Brookings Institution; Anthony Shadid, The New York Times; George Will, ABC News; Amy Walter, ABC News’ Political Director; Cokie Roberts, ABC News.

• CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Joe Lockhart, former Clinton White House Press Secretary; Michael Gerson, former Bush Speechwriter; Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret.); Amb. John Negroponte.

• CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: Michelle Cottle, Daily Beast/Newsweek; Lauren Ashburn, Ashburn Media; Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle; Steve Coll, The New Yorker; Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider; Adam Buckman, Fancast.com.

• Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: David Sanger, The New York Times; Nancy Youssef, McClatchy News Service; John Dickerson, Slate Magazine and CBS News; Dan Balz, The Washington Post.

• Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt: Attorney General Eric Holder.

• NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show: Howard Fineman, Huffington Post; Michael Duffy, TIME; Norah O’Donnell, NBC News; and Katty Kay, BBC.

• Washington Watch with Roland Martin: Bishop T.D. Jakes, senior pastor of Dallas-based Potter’s House; Lamar and Ronnie Tyler,  BlackAndMarriedWithKids.com; Sophia Nelson, author, blogger, commentator and columnist; Janks Morton, award-winning documentarian and social critic.

•Platts Energy Week: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA).

• C-SPAN’s Newsmakers: Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, chairman of the Energy & Natural Resources Committee.

•Bloomberg & WJLA’s energyNOW!: Planet Forward’s Frank Sesno and Danny Kennedy, founder of Sungevity Solar. 

•Politico’s “Turn the Table” after the jump.

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NPR will celebrate its 40th anniversary at GWU next Monday night with a “lively look at the history and future of public radio and its impact on our society.”

NPR’s Acting Senior Vice President of News Margaret Low Smith will be joined by Emmy Award winner Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, and Audie Cornish, all of NPR. Also taking part: former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno and GW professor Christopher Sterling, considered to be an expert on radio and broadcast journalism and who has authored several books on radio.

The event begins at 6:15 p.m. on Monday and is followed by a reception. Get more details and RSVP here.

A couple panels of possible interest tonight and tomorrow:

Tonight at 7:00 in George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium, the school will sponsor a discussion called “Democracy and Public Argument: Where We Are and Where We Are Headed.” Speakers include NYT columnist Bob Herbert, founding partner of Engage communications Mindy Finn, GW professor and a former editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Albert May, and Bud Ward, director of the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.

Tomorrow morning at the Newseum, the International Women’s Media Foundation is sponsoring a panel moderated by PBS’s Judy Woodruff. The group will discuss the influence of social media on social causes, and will feature Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Matt Winkler, Alberto Ibargüen of the Knight Foundation, and Howard G. Buffett, the oldest son of Warren Buffett. The panel begins at 9:30 and will also be broadcast live here.

Then at 1:00, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s director, Tom Rosenstiel, will participate in a discussion about Pew’s recently released “State of the News Media” report. It is the center’s eighth annual report on journalism. Frank Sesno, former CNN bureau chief and now School of Media and Public Affairs director at GW, will moderate. Also on the panel: Alberto Ibargüen, Executive Director of the Online News Association Jane McDonnell, and GW professor Matthew Hindman. The panel, hosted at GW, will be broadcast live online here.

Last night, at The George Washington University’s bowling alley, CNN Senior White House correspondent Ed Henry took to the lanes with his kids and mother-in-law in tow.

Henry, who is a fellow this year at the university’s School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA), is teaching a class this semester with former Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. But last night, he attempted to school his students (including this one) in some bowling.

That wasn’t exactly what happened. He didn’t do too well. We aren’t sure of his final score, but midway through the game, it was somewhere in the 40-50 range.

Henry joined about 30 students and several faculty members, including SMPA’s director and CNN’s former Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno, who was a bit of a better bowler.

Four former White House Press Secretaries joined former CNN White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno at George Washington University last night for candid conversation.

Press secretaries from the Clinton administration – Dee Dee Myers (now a contributing editor for Vanity Fair) and Mike McCurry – joined Bush 43 press secretaries Dana Perino (now a FNC contributor) and Ari Fleischer at the university’s Lisner Auditorium. Another Clinton flack, Joe Lockhart, planned to attend, but couldn’t due to complications following surgery.

The event, broadcast on C-SPAN and P.O.T.U.S. radio, opened with remarks from CNN’s current White House correspondent, Ed Henry (he and Lockhart are fellows at GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs this year). Henry spoke about “sparring” with several press secretaries during his five years at the White House, and recounted a story about the late Tony Snow, who once lost his temper in a briefing and told Henry to “zip it.” The next day, they put it behind them. It’s important, he said, for the press secretary and the press corps to have a “healthy dose of respect” for one another.

With that, the press secretaries were introduced, and Sesno posed the first question: Was President Obama’s sit-down with Bill O’Reilly before the Superbowl a good idea or a bad one? All agreed it was a “great” idea. “Everyone in America’s in a good mood,” Perino said. Fleischer thought Obama “scored some points for going over to the lion’s den.”

McCurry, along with the rest of the panel, lamented allowing TV cameras in the briefing room, which he said had turned briefings into political theater and weren’t good for public discourse. “It was an idiot who allowed TV cameras” into the briefing room, he joked. (He was the one who first introduced the cameras.)

Each panelist spoke about the relationship the press secretary has with the press. You always see the press secretary defending the president, Perino said, but “you never see” him or her “defending the press to the president,” which is a big part of the job. Others agreed.

But the relationship isn’t always friendly. “Reporters play the aggressive role,” Fleischer said. He charged they also demand an unrealistic amount of access. “They won’t be satisfied till there’s Oval Office cam.” McCurry agreed: “They’re always bitching and moaning about something.”

A few specific reporters were mentioned…

Also: Find out what Perino thinks of AOL/HuffPost…

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Mike McCurry, Dee Dee Myers and Joe Lockhart

Five former White House press secretaries will sit down with GW School of Media Public Affairs Director Frank Sesno for a “conversation.”

The lineup: Ari Fleischer, Joe Lockhart, Mike McCurry, Dee Dee Myers and Dana Perino

Themes include insights in making and shaping news and the ever changing media landscape. SMPA Fellow and CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry will briefly discuss the dynamic between modern media and the White House.

The date: February 7 at 7 p..m.

Members of the media should RSVP to Emily Cain at eecain@gwu.edu. Tickets are required for this event and can be found here.

Fellow – it’s such a distinguished word.

And in our midst are three new George Washington University fellows. They are former White House Press Sec. under Bill Clinton and managing director of The Glover Park Group Joe Lockhart, CNN’s senior White House correspondent Ed Henry and NYT columnist Bob Herbert. They’ve been appointed as such to the School of Media and Public Affairs for the 2010-2011 school year.

With mid-term elections fast approaching, they will examine political races with students. “Their varied experiences not only embody the trifecta of public affairs and communications but also get at the heart of what we teach – reporting, opinion journalism and political communication,” remarked Frank Sesno, director of GWU’s School of Media and Public Affairs.

What exactly will these fellows do? Find out after the jump…

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On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, host Howard Kurtz led guests into a heated discussion on anger and personal attacks within the media. Guests included: CBS News’s Chief White House correspondent Chip Reid, GWU’s Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs Frank Sesno, former managing editor of USA Today and President of Ashburn Media Laura Ashburn and The Baltimore Sun‘s media writer David Zurawik. Watch it here.

“I’m enraged Howard,” Reid jokes, when Kurtz at one point cuts him off to move on to another aspect of the topic. Reid calls CBS News an “island of sanity” in regards to Kurtz’s subject of “The Poisonous Press.”

And in his WaPo column today, Kurtz again tackles the topic of media rage.

FishbowlDC reached out to Kurtz. Should he provide comment we’ll post it immediately. In the meantime, read what he has to say about his own place in the media after the jump…

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On March 29, journalism industry insiders will convene at Jack Morton Auditorium for an in-depth discussion of the “State of the Media 2010.”

EVENT: The revenue numbers for almost all American media companies are in great decline, and newer business models are struggling… This and other key findings of the Pew Research Center will be discussed in an afternoon conference at GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA). A panel will react to the report and the latest news coverage for a deeper appraisal of the state of American journalism. Frank Sesno, director of SMPA, will moderate, and Vivian Schiller, NPR’s president and CEO, will deliver a keynote address.

WHEN: Monday, March 29, 2010; 1 p.m.

WHERE: The George Washington University; Jack Morton Auditorium
805 21st Street, NW Washington, D.C.

WHO: Jim Brady, president, Digital Strategies, Allbritton Communications Company; Tina Brown, founder and editor-in-chief, The Daily Beast; Susan Page, Washington bureau chief, USA Today; Antoine Sanfuentes, senior vice president and Washington bureau chief, NBC News; Vivian Schiller, president and CEO, NPR (Keynote); Charlie Sennott, executive editor, GlobalPost

RSVP: This event is free and open to the public. To register, visit http://pejgwu.eventbrite.com. Media should RSVP to Emily Cain, eecain@gwu.edu.