We’re blissful to announce that Taylor Telford will develop into The Publish’s first full-time company tradition reporter, embarking on a brand new beat that identifies tendencies and explores modifications sweeping America’s workplaces and company boardrooms.
Taylor is launching the beat at a time of nice tumult in company America, when the character of labor is altering earlier than our eyes. Corporations are weighing in on points far faraway from the underside line and staff are re-evaluating their attachment to their places of work, their jobs and their careers.
Taylor has tackled many of those points over the previous 4 years as a breaking information reporter on the Enterprise desk, the place her work has been distinguished by curiosity, charming writing and a broad command of enterprise and coverage matters. She has deftly produced the primary iterations of such main information tales because the Colonial Pipeline hack and meme inventory insanity, and helped anchor a lot of our Wall Road protection. Taylor additionally carved out time for authentic enterprise, producing a deeply immersive story (with Jacob Bogage and Melina Mara) about 200,000 business sailors stranded at sea. For an additional, about the usage of nooses as a type of racist harassment inside the development trade, Taylor constructed her personal database of such incidents. Extra just lately, Taylor has written extensively concerning the some ways the pandemic disrupted staff and corporations, together with explainers on the Nice Resignation and provide chain issues. Her work on covid outbreaks within the meatpacking trade was a part of a bundle that received the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for beat reporting.
Earlier than becoming a member of the Enterprise desk, Taylor was a summer season intern in Model. She beforehand interned on the Tampa Bay Instances and the Day by day Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass. Initially from Cincinnati, Taylor graduated from Indiana College at Bloomington, the place she majored in journalism and Spanish. She enjoys poetry, rock-climbing and video video games – particularly “Slay the Spire.”
Please be part of us in congratulating Taylor on her new position. She begins Monday.