10/3/97
ATHENS, Ohio -- T.R. Reid,Washington Post reporter and National Public Radio (NPR) commentator, will lecture on "The Asian Century: The Confucian Challenge" at 7:30 p.m. Monday (Oct. 6) in Anderson Auditorium in Scripps Hall on the Ohio University campu s. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Reid, who also writes a regular column for the Japanese newsmagazine Shukan Shincho, has become one of the nation's best-known foreign correspondents through his coverage of East Asian affairs and his light-hearted commentaries on NPR.
Reid joined the national news staff of the Washington Post in 1977. He was the Post's Rocky Mountain bureau chief, based in Denver, from 1984 to 1990, and the East Asian bureau chief, based in Tokyo , from 1990 to 1995. He has covered Congress and three presidential campaigns.
The author of three books in English and three in Japanese, Reid became famous in Japan following his stories predicting the electoral defeat of the Liberal-Democratic Party in 1993.
Reid teams with Fox News Correspondent Brit Hume to write the syndicated column "Computer Report" that runs weekly in newspapers around the United States. He currently is writing a book about Confucian values and also hosts a series of TV documentaries on Japan for the Turner Broadcasting System.