Chip Reid

Charles Henry "Chip" Reid Jr. (born February 24, 1955) is an American broadcast journalist. He was named CBS News National correspondent in June 2011. Prior to that, he had been the network's congressional correspondent and its Chief White House Correspondent, a position he assumed in January 2009.

Prior to his association with CBS, he was employed by NBC News, where he covered politics and Capitol Hill.

Early life and education Reid was born February 24, 1955 in Wilmington, Delaware to Charles H. Reid Sr. and Norma Reid. He was educated at Concord High School, a public secondary school in Wilmington, Delaware.

Reid then attended Vassar College, a private liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie in New York state, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in psychology in 1977. He then moved on to Princeton University in New Jersey, graduating with a Master's of Public Affairs degree. Lastly, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1982. He subsequently retired from CBS.

Author In 2023, Reid's book Battle Scars: Twenty Years Later, Third Battalion Fifth Marines Looks Back at the Iraq War and How it Changed Their Lives was published by Casemate Publishers. It is about the Marine battalion with whom Reid was embedded for six weeks as an NBC News correspondent during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Personal life Reid and his wife Nina Black live in Washington, D.C.