Spent 25 years as a writer/producer for Cable News Network (CNN), shared several Emmys and George Polk Awards; foreign correspondent in Asia for 11 years including New Delhi, India bureau chief for United Press Internation, UPI correspondent/editorl in Hong Kong, Chief Asia Correspondent based in Tokyo for Cox Newspapers (owner of Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Master of Arts degree University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Bachelor of Arts degree Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; born and rasided in Johnson City, Tennessee; married with two adult children; resident of Decatur, GA.