Barbara Nevins Taylor
Journalism Program Director, The City College of New York
Center for Community News
BIO
Barbara Nevins Taylor is a distinguished lecturer and the Journalism Program Director at The City College of New York. She teaches Introduction to Journalism and Television/Video Journalism and considers this unexpected career a wonderful opportunity to encourage the next generation of journalists. It鈥檚 especially rewarding because she is a 1970 graduate of CCNY. She oversees the online publication Harlem View, which publishes student work about their communities and social, political and culture issues throughout New York City and its suburbs. Her investigative reporting at TV stations in New York, Atlanta, Kentucky and Alabama earned 22 Emmy Awards and more than 50 journalism awards and honors.
During her TV career Barbara pursued stories that made a difference in the lives of individuals and the community. Her reports earned praise, generated government action and helped send wrongdoers to prison. Long before the most recent financial crisis, Barbara exposed flaws in the mortgage lending and banking systems that led poor people into financial ruin.
On ConsumerMojo.com, which she founded in 2012, Barbara uses the latest digital storytelling techniques to serve a growing audience that needs reliable information about complicated issues. Barbara has contributed to The New York Times Op-Ed page, writing about criminal justice, foster care and young people in New York City. Her writing has also focused on concerns of parents and women and has appeared in national magazines. Her book Beautiful Skin of Color, with doctors Jeanine Downie and Fran Cook-Bolden, published by ReganBooks, evolved from her television reports.
CCNY Alumni awarded her the prestigious Townsend Harris medal for career achievement and she is also in the Communications Alumni Group鈥檚 Hall of Fame. She wants her students to get there too.She is also an audiobook narrator and has recorded 25 works, mostly fiction.
Barbara practices Tai Chi, loves to cook, garden, travel, enjoy the theater, visit museums and embrace the best of New York City.
Bio
Barbara Nevins Taylor is a distinguished lecturer and the Journalism Program Director at The City College of New York. She teaches Introduction to Journalism and Television/Video Journalism and considers this unexpected career a wonderful opportunity to encourage the next generation of journalists. It鈥檚 especially rewarding because she is a 1970 graduate of CCNY. She oversees the online publication Harlem View, which publishes student work about their communities and social, political and culture issues throughout New York City and its suburbs. Her investigative reporting at TV stations in New York, Atlanta, Kentucky and Alabama earned 22 Emmy Awards and more than 50 journalism awards and honors.
During her TV career Barbara pursued stories that made a difference in the lives of individuals and the community. Her reports earned praise, generated government action and helped send wrongdoers to prison. Long before the most recent financial crisis, Barbara exposed flaws in the mortgage lending and banking systems that led poor people into financial ruin.
On ConsumerMojo.com, which she founded in 2012, Barbara uses the latest digital storytelling techniques to serve a growing audience that needs reliable information about complicated issues. Barbara has contributed to The New York Times Op-Ed page, writing about criminal justice, foster care and young people in New York City. Her writing has also focused on concerns of parents and women and has appeared in national magazines. Her book Beautiful Skin of Color, with doctors Jeanine Downie and Fran Cook-Bolden, published by ReganBooks, evolved from her television reports.
CCNY Alumni awarded her the prestigious Townsend Harris medal for career achievement and she is also in the Communications Alumni Group鈥檚 Hall of Fame. She wants her students to get there too.She is also an audiobook narrator and has recorded 25 works, mostly fiction.
Barbara practices Tai Chi, loves to cook, garden, travel, enjoy the theater, visit museums and embrace the best of New York City.