Adrian Taylor (producer)

Taylor moved to Washington D.C. after graduation from Boston College.^[3] He worked for United States Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania for one year.^[1] He then returned to reporting, first as a producer and then a reporter for National Public Radio.^[1][3] Taylor also worked for ABC News for approximately ten years, where he produced segments for 20/20 and Primetime Live.^[1] He also produced pieces for CNBC, ESPN and Fox News during his career.^[1][2]

Clem Taylor spent nearly twenty years with CBS News.^[3] He worked as a CBS producer based in Washington D.C., Dallas, and New York City.^[3] He was assigned as a producer based in the White House during the Reagan administration during the 1980s.^[3] Taylor covered the Reykjavík Summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland in 1986.^[3] In the late 1990s, he was named a senior producer of The Early Show during the late 1990s.^[1]

Taylor spent his last four years at CBS News as a producer for 60 Minutes.^[1][3] He co-produced a 60 Minutes segment, called "Joy in the Congo," on the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2] "Joy in the Congo" originally broadcast on Easter Sunday in 2012.^[3] The segment won a Peabody Award in May 2013.^[3]

Taylor's last segment for 60 Minutes focused on a group of men who staged the 1980 Winter Olympics.^[1]

In May 2013, Taylor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.^[1] He died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, on March 21, 2014, at the age of 60.^[1][2] He was a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.^[3]