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. 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.[4]
In July 2012, Taylor replaced Dennis Ryerson as editor of The Indianapolis Star.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
- ^ a b "1992 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Their Works in Journalism and the Arts". The New York Times. April 8, 1992.
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