Ann Taylor
Newscaster
Ann Taylor is a newscaster for NPR. Her news updates have been featured on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered since August 1989.
Taylor was part of the team during NPR News' coverage of Sept. 11th and its aftermath -- coverage that earned the network the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Silver Baton, The Overseas Press Club 2001 Lowell Thomas Award, and the George Foster Peabody Award. Prior to joining NPR, Taylor was a radio correspondent for NBC News and delivered daily newscasts and features. While at NBC, she covered such noted events as the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the 1979 release of American hostages from Iran, Richard Nixon's resignation, and the activities leading up to the Watergate trial. She also co-anchored NBC's News and Information Service.
Taylor was awarded the Gabriel Certificate of Merit for her NBC series highlighting positive stories in the news. She also received an American Women in Radio and Television Commendation for The Woman's Program, a bi-weekly public affairs show.
From 1969 to 1974, Taylor served as a news anchor at WTOP Radio, an all-news radio station in Washington, D.C., and then as a news co-anchor for WTOP-TV, Channel 9. Prior to that, she delivered radio and television newscasts for WATE/Knoxville, Tennessee.
In 1996, Taylor won the Notable Woman Award from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Taylor attended Sweet Briar College for three years, then transferred to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English and minor in history. She is a graduate of Chatham Hall in Chatham, Virginia.
