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] Taylor oversaw an investigative effort that won wide acclaim for uncovering widespread sexual abuse within USA Gymnastics. The investigative reporting helped secure the conviction and imprisonment of former team physician Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexual assault of minors and other charges, and prompted the ouster of Steve Penny as USAG's chief executive officer. ^[8]

In March 2018, Taylor was named Executive Editor for news at USA TODAY. He supervises all news operations for the Nation desk, Politics, Washington and World, and Money & Technology.^[9]

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.
^ 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^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 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
^ Haneline, Dakota Crawford and Amy. "Follow IndyStar's investigation of USA Gymnastics and Larry Nassar from start to finish". The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
^ Snider, Mike. "Indianapolis Star editor named USA TODAY executive editor for news". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-11-26.

Gerald Loeb Award winners for Small and Medium Newspapers

Gerald Loeb Award for Small Newspapers (1974–1983, 1985–2008)
(1974–1979)	(1974) (1975) (1976) (1977 shared) (1977 shared) (1977 shared) (1978) Philip Moeller( (1979)
(1980–1989)	(1980 shared) (1980 shared) (1981) (1982) Staff of the Sentinel Star (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (HM) (1982 shared) (1983) No Award (1984) (1985 shared) (1985 shared) (1985 shared) (1985 shared) (1986) (HM) (1986) (1987) (1988) (HM) (1988) (1989)
(1990–1999)	(1990 shared) (1990 shared) (1991 shared) Linda Moss (1991 shared) (1992 shared) (1992 shared) (1993 shared) (1993 shared) (1994) Jim Lynch (1995 shared) (1995 shared) (1996) (1997) (1998 shared) (1998 shared) (1999 shared) (1999 shared)
(2000–2008)	(2000) (2001) (2002) Eric Eyre (2003 shared) (2003 shared) Kate Long (2004) (2005) (2006) (2007 shared) (2007 shared) Tony Bartelme (2008)

Gerald Loeb Award for Medium Newspapers (1987–2008)
(1987–1989)	(1987) (1988) S. Lynne Walker (1989)
(1990–1999)	(1990 shared) (1990 shared) (1991 shared) (1991 shared) (1991 shared) (1992 shared) (1992 shared) Pete Carey (1993 shared) Lewis M. Simons (1993 shared) (1994 shared) (1994 shared) (1995 shared) (1995 shared) (1995 shared) (1995 shared) (1995 shared) (1996 shared) (1996 shared) (1996 shared) (1997 shared) (1997 shared) (1997 shared) (1998 shared) (1998 shared) (1998 shared) (1998 shared) (1998 shared) (1998 shared) (1999 shared) (1999 shared)
(2000–2008)	(2000 shared) Jeffrey Taylor (2000 shared) (2000 shared) (2001 shared) (2001 shared) (2001 shared) (2001 shared) (2002 shared) (2002 shared) (2002 shared) (2002 shared) (2003 shared) (2003 shared) (2004) (2005 shared) (2005 shared) (2006 shared) (2006 shared) (2006 shared) (2006 shared) (2006 shared) (HM) (2006 shared) David Heath (HM) (2006 shared) (2007 shared) (2007 shared) (2007 shared) Binyamin Appelbaum (2008 shared) (2008 shared) (2008 shared) (2008 shared) (2008 shared)

Gerald Loeb Award for Medium & Small Newspapers (2009–2012)
(2009)	(2009 shared) (2009 shared) (2009 shared) (HM) (2009 shared) (HM) (2009 shared) (HM) (2009 shared) (HM) (2009 shared) (HM) (2009 shared)
(2010–2012)	Michael Sallah (2010 shared) (2010 shared) Lucy Komisar (2010 shared) (2011 shared) (2011 shared) Michael J. Berens (2011 shared) Raquel Rutledge (2012 shared) (2012 shared) (2012 shared) (2012 shared) (2012 shared) (2012 shared) (2012 shared)

Small & Medium Newspapers (2013–2014)
(2013–2014)	(2013 shared) (2013 shared) (2013 shared) (2013 shared) (2013 shared) Ellen Gabler (2014 shared) (2014 shared) (2014 shared) (2014 shared) (2014 shared)

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National (1942-1947)
1942–1947	Louis Stark (1942) Dewey L. Fleming (1944) James Reston (1945) Edward A. Harris (1946) Edward T. Folliard (1947)

As Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1948-present)
1948–1949	Bert Andrews (1948 shared) Nat S. Finney (1948 shared) C. P. Trussell (1949)
1950–1959	Edwin O. Guthman (1950) Anthony Leviero (1952) Don Whitehead (1953) Richard Wilson (1954) Anthony Lewis (1955) Charles L. Bartlett (1956) James Reston (1957) Clark Mollenhoff (1958 shared) Relman Morin (1958 shared) Howard Van Smith (1959)
1960–1969	Vance Trimble (1960) Edward R. Cony (1961) Nathan G. Caldwell (1962 shared) Gene S. Graham (1962 shared) Anthony Lewis (1963) Merriman Smith (1964) Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr. (1965) Haynes Johnson (1966) Stanley Penn (1967 shared) Monroe Karmin (1967 shared) Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz (1968 shared) (1968 shared) (1969)
1970–1979	William J. Eaton (1970) Lucinda Franks (1971) Jack Anderson (1972) Robert Boyd (1973 shared) Clark Hoyt (1973 shared) Jack White (1974 shared) James R. Polk (1974 shared) Donald L. Barlett (1975 shared) James B. Steele (1975 shared) James V. Risser (1976) Walter Mears (1977) Gaylord D. Shaw (1978) James V. Risser (1979)
1980–1989	Bette Swenson Orsini (1980 shared) (1980 shared) John M. Crewdson (1981) Rick Atkinson (1982) The Boston Globe (1983) John Noble Wilford (1984) Thomas J. Knudson (1985) Craig Flournoy (1986 shared) (1986 shared) (1986 shared) Staff of The Miami Herald (1987 shared) Staff of The New York Times (1987 shared) Tim Weiner (1988) Donald L. Barlett (1989 shared) James B. Steele (1989 shared)
1990–1999	(1990 shared) Bill Dietrich (1990 shared) (1990 shared) Eric Nalder (1990 shared) Marjie Lundstrom (1991 shared) (1991 shared) Gannett News Service (1991 shared) Jeff Taylor (1992 shared) (1992 shared) The Kansas City Star (1992 shared) David Maraniss (1993) Eileen Welsome (1994) Tony Horwitz (1995) Alix M. Freedman (1996) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1997) Russell Carollo (1998 shared) Jeff Nesmith (1998 shared) Staff of The New York Times (1999) Jeff Gerth (1999)
2000–2009	Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2000) Staff of The New York Times (2001) Staff of The Washington Post (2002) Alan Miller (2003 shared) Kevin Sack (2003 shared) Staff of Los Angeles Times (2004 shared) Walt Bogdanich (2005) James Risen (2006 shared) Eric Lichtblau (2006 shared) Staff of The San Diego Union-Tribune (2006 shared) Staff of Copley News Service (2006 shared) Marcus Stern (2006 shared) (2006 shared) Charlie Savage (2007) Jo Becker (2008 shared) Barton Gellman (2008 shared) Staff of St. Petersburg Times (2009)
2010-2020	Matt Richtel (2010 shared) Staff of The New York Times (2010 shared) Jesse Eisinger (2011 shared) Jake Bernstein (2011 shared) David Wood (2012) Lisa Song (2013 shared) Elizabeth McGowan (2013 shared) David Hasemyer (2013 shared) David Philipps (2014) Carol D. Leonnig (2015) Staff of The Washington Post (2016) David Fahrenthold (2017) Staff of The New York Times (2018 shared) Staff of The Washington Post (2018 shared) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2019) Dominic Gates, , and of The Seattle Times, T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and of ProPublica (2020 shared)