Chris Reed is a regular contributor to Cal Watchdog. Reed is an editorial writer for U-T San Diego. Before joining the U-T in July 2005, he was the opinion-page columns editor and wrote the Unspin column for The Orange County Register, which he joined in 1998. Reed was on the national board of the Association of Opinion Page Editors from 2003-2005. From 2000 to 2005, Reed was a featured news analyst on Los Angeles-area National Public Radio affiliate KPCC-FM. He also taught journalism at the University of La Verne. From 1990 to 1998, Reed was an editor, film critic and metro columnist at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario. He has a political science degree from the University of Hawaii (Hilo campus), where he edited the student newspaper, the Vulcan News, his senior year. He is on Twitter: @chrisreed99.