Jeff Taylor

Jeffrey Taylor is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize. Biography Taylor grew up in Kansas and is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He began his career as a reporter at The Kansas City Star in 1985. In 1991, he and fellow Star reporter Mike McGraw wrote an investigative series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for which they won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 1995, Taylor joined the Detroit Free Press, where he shared a 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for "A Killer in Our Food". In 2009, Taylor was managing editor for news 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.