George McCullagh Reed (1831 – 13 November 1898) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister, journalist and newspaper proprietor.

[1] Reed was elected to the second Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the district of Ipswich in a ministerial by-election on 4 August 1866 and held this seat until the end of the parliamentary term on 19 June 1867.

[3] He served on the executive council (10 December 1873 – 13 November 1874) and was provincial treasurer until his resignation from that post.

Some months later, he purchased a morning newspaper in Dunedin, the Otago Guardian, together with George Fenwick.

He moved to the United Kingdom as the Herald's correspondent, and there he set up the Australian Times and Anglo-New-Zealander together with Robert Reid.