Paul Kendall Niven Jr. (September 20, 1924 – January 7, 1970) was CBS television journalist and presidential debate moderator.

Niven also documented the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, and the triumph of Van Cliburn in Moscow.

[4] On July 7, 1966, Niven left CBS for National Educational Television as its lead correspondent,[6] for which he interviewed Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

She said that since her father's death (on March 5, 1953), the Soviet Union had not changed despite "de-Stalinization" and that Russia's leaders had even taken "steps backwards."

[7] Niven died from head trauma as a result of house fire at his home in Washington, DC, on January 8, 1970.