06/21/2005

Reid named Associated Press correspondent-at-large

NEW YORK -- Robert Reid, European news editor for The Associated Press in Brussels, Belgium, has been promoted to correspondent-at-large.

The announcement was made June 20 by Deborah Seward, AP's international editor. As correspondent-at-large, Reid will help direct coverage of major military, political and diplomatic events outside the United States as well as oversee AP's new global headline service.

Reid joined the AP in 1969 in Charlotte, N.C., taking military leave in 1970. He returned to the AP in Charlotte in 1973 and transferred to the international desk three years later. He received his first foreign posting in Bonn, Germany, in 1977.

Since then, Reid's major postings have included chief of bureau in Cairo, Egypt, from 1982-1985; roving Middle East correspondent from 1985-1986; chief of bureau in Manila, Philippines, from 1986-1995; chief correspondent at the United Nations from 1995-1998; chief of bureau in Vienna, Austria, from 1998-2001; and European news editor based in Brussels in 2001.

In his nearly four decades with the AP, Reid has covered such major events as the Iranian revolution, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the birth of Solidarity, the civil war in Lebanon, the Iran-Iraq war, war in the Balkans and the current war in Iraq.

A native of Asheville, N.C., Reid graduated from Davidson College.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720