Jon Kalish is a New York City-based radio reporter, freelance writer and podcast producer. He has been heard on NPR newsmagazines for close to 30 years, written for Reuters and major daily newspapers, and produced podcasts for his own outlets and for others.

Kalish has been producing his radio work digitally for ten years. A general assignment reporter with a wide range of interests, he covered litigation over the Vietnam War defoliant Agent Orange for seven years, a two-month criminal trial of the so-called "subway gunman" in New York, and spent many years reporting on homelessness. An authority on the Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, he produced a documentary called Brooklyn According to Kalish, which resulted in six months as producer-in-residence at KCRW in Santa Monica, California. Since then he has produced several original documentaries for the station, two of which have won awards. Other beats over the years: the deaf community, cyberspace and do-it-yourself projects.

Kalish shares a loft in Manhattan with his wife Pamela, a painter, and two Siamese cats named Max and Izzy.