Since retiring from Reuters, I have conducted journalism training workshops at Cal Poly, Columbia University, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. My specialty is bespoke training for narrative and investigative journalism. I also teach journalism boot camp and newsroom leadership courses. As a writer, I maintain a couple of bIogs, including one on Asian spirituality and another on senior softball leagues in the LA area. I also write freelance news features and some sponsored content.

I was a foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and editor for 35 years with Reuters, guiding teams of journalists to produce breaking news, features, and investigations in multimedia formats. I worked throughout Asia, including multi-year postings in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Korea and Singapore. I was lead editor for Reuters  Pultizer Prize in 2013 in the category of International Journalism and won a National Press Club award in 2015. I ended my Reuters career as the Los Angeles Bureau Chief, in charge of Hollywood coverage, features, and late breaking news across the United States. I have two adult daughters, one working for NBC and the other a doctor in Ireland.

“As a writer you should not judge. You should understand.”

- Ernest Hemingway