T.R. Reid is the Washington Post's Rocky Mountain bureau chief and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and National Geographic. Reid has written nine books, including The United States of Europe.

Reid leaves Denver shortly after the NFPW National Conference to join the faculty at Princeton University, where he will be the Ferris professor of the humanities for the fall term to teach a course on "Extracting Truth from the Media."

Reid took a roundabout path to the Post. He majored in classics at Princeton University and subsequently worked as a teacher; as a naval officer during the Vietnam War; as a lawyer; and at a few other jobs along the way.

At the Washington Post, he has covered Congress, national politics and four presidential campaigns. He has spent most of the past decade overseas, as the paper's bureau chief in Tokyo and in London. He has reported from three dozen countries on four continents.

Reid has written and hosted documentary films for National Geographic TV and for the A&E network. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." He has served as a visiting professor at Colorado College and the University of Michigan. He has been a board member at Princeton University and a number of community organizations and schools.

Reid has been married for 33 years to attorney Margaret M. McMahon. They have three children.