Jeff Taylor (journalist)
Jeffrey Taylor is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize.[1][2]
Biography
Taylor grew up in Kansas and attended the University of Kansas, graduating in 1984. He began his career as a reporter at The Kansas City Star in 1985.[3] In 1991, he and fellow Star reporter Mike McGraw wrote a critical series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for which they won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting next year.[1][2]
In 1995, Taylor joined the Detroit Free Press, where he shared the 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for Medium Newspers for "A Killer in Our Food"[4]. In 2009, Taylor was senior managing editor at the Free Press when the newspaper's reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the corruption of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Taylor was intimately involved in editing on the Kilpatrick stories.[5]
In July 2012, Taylor replaced Dennis Ryerson as editor of The Indianapolis Star.[6][7]
In March 2018, Taylor was named Executive Editor for news at USA TODAY.[8]
References
- "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
- "1992 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Their Works in Journalism and the Arts". The New York Times. April 8, 1992.
- Indianapolis Star names new top editor | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
- Lipinski, Lynn (May 23, 2000). "UCLA'S Anderson School Announces Winners of Loeb Competition and the Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award". UCLA. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- Indianapolis Star hires Detroit Free Press senior managing editor Jeffrey Taylor as new editor
- Free Press senior editor Jeff Taylor named to top role at Indianapolis Star | Michigan Business | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
- ‘Detroit Free Press’ Announces Layoffs; Editor Jeff Taylor Joins ‘Indianapolis Star’ - MediaJobsDaily
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/media/2018/03/28/indianapolis-star-editor-named-usa-today-executive-editor-news/466343002/