[ Taylor Turner ]

Taylor Turner understands what it means to be a team player and to put in the long grueling hours. Taylor is a Daily News Producer and Video Journalist at The New York Times. She has record-breaking achievement in breaking news, live video and video production on the local, national and international level. Her skill set encompasses pioneering team-wide workflow processes to meet organizational goals, strategically optimizing visual storytelling with an aim to help grow audiences and training team members to be at the forefront of shifts in technology. Taylor has reported from Beijing, China, and Seoul, South Korea. She has covered natural disasters, travel, food, entertainment, sports and United States presidential elections. Taylor joined the New York Times in 2020, securing new workflows and systems for the Daily News Video team and leveraged partnerships with the audience team to optimize video clips and breaking news packages. At The Times, Taylor handles daily video clip production and live video, spotting errors and providing feedback to improve the final visual product on deadline in a breaking news environment. Her focus is team workflow enhancement and an increase in video production output. Taylor also uses data and third-party audience-related tools to optimize The Times videos, help track goals and video performance, and generate internal analytics reports on news clips which informs the team's live video programming decisions and day-to-day news priorities. As The Times expands its 24/7 global coverage, Taylor spent three months in Seoul, South Korea, producing breaking news video, including coverage of Japan's former prime minister’s assassination and Sri Lanka's economic crisis. Her work in Seoul is instrumental in the live video and clip production workflows for the video department's bureau expansion. Every quarter The Times awards the New York Times Publisher’s Award, which recognizes impactful work and celebrates colleagues whose projects and stories had an impact on the company's business, readers and mission. Taylor is a two time Publisher's Award Winner, where her live news work was recognized alongside a team of reporters that covered the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In 2020, she was also recognized alongside her colleagues for creating a native live video solution that has transformed the company's ability to cover live events. When thousands of protestors swarmed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Taylor worked as a live and clips coverage producer, anchoring visuals for the New York Time's live blog. The live/news video coverage of the January 6 attack on the Capitol was a share in the Staff of The New York Times package that was nominated for a 2022 Pulitzer Prize distinguished example of breaking news reporting. Taylor started her career in network broadcast television at ABC News, where alongside her colleagues, the team was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award, the 2016 Winner for Overall Excellence in Television and Radio for outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism. Taylor then joined The Washington Post as a video editor and producer. At The Post, Taylor coordinated live events, breaking news coverage and produced original videos through several high-pressure news cycles. She was an instrumental video content creator in the launch of the Washington Post’s Digital Travel Initiative, By The Way, which included the production and creation of original digital video series that live on site, YouTube and Instagram. Taylor also assisted in developing workflows and shooting style guidance for the freelancers hired from around the world, ensuring that the Washington Post had a consistent video look, feel and style across all platforms. Taylor was awarded a grant from the Pulitzer Center International Reporting in 2020 to conduct in-depth, high-impact reporting of global importance on cultural tourism in Ghana, a story that at the time had been overlooked by mainstream U.S. media. The height of the pandemic later prevented this story from being safely reported. Taylor is also a 2020 Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media program recipient, a highly selective program of women worldwide focused on efficient team management, communicating strategy and honing decision making skills to successfully lead today’s news and media organizations. It is difficult to produce powerful content that means something to the viewer and this is the challenge Taylor wishes to address within her career. Taylor is also an all natural professional bodybuilder and journalism professor. In 2021, she won her pro card in the OCB (Organization of Competitive Bodybuilders). In addition to her work at The Times, Taylor currently teaches graduate students at New York University to develop their video editing and producing skills across social news video and explainer video projects. Prior to NYU, Taylor was an adjunct lecturer in Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications where she taught Digital Media Literacy, a course to help students develop and critically examine our digital culture and new media landscape.