Biography
Taylor Stevens is an award-winning investigative reporter currently working with KSTU FOX 13 Utah through the E.W. Scripps Company's national Journalism Journey Initiative, which trains veteran print reporters to bring their skills into broadcast newsrooms.
Before joining FOX 13, she spent two years working as a contract investigative reporter with The Associated Press' Global Investigations team on the "Lethal Restraint" project, a nationwide investigation into deaths that occur after police use deadly force that wasn't meant to kill. Her work has been featured in The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Republic, the Utah Investigative Journalism Project and other outlets.
A former senior politics reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, Taylor spent nearly five years covering all levels of government and the way the policies elected officials approved — or rejected — impacted everyday Utahns. As part of her reporting, she has interviewed everyone from people experiencing homelessness to presidential candidates and covered everything from natural disasters to protests turned violent.
Her work in Utah sparked real change in the community, helping people experiencing homelessness get into housing and prompting an investigation into a local mayor's misconduct. Her team reporting on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic earned her a first place investigative award for COVID-19 reporting from the Utah Society of Professional Journalists. In 2019, she was honored as the organization’s Best Newspaper Reporter.
Taylor hold a master’s in investigative journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
As part of her coursework, she traveled to Tapachula, Mexico, to report on the immigration crisis there with Cronkite’s Southwest Borderlands Initiative. She also led an investigative reporting effort focused on how Arizona's strict criminal background rules affect people with criminal histories.
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