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Meet the WWOR My9 News Team
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My9 News Team
- Barbara Nevins Taylor |
- Brenda Flanagan |
- Giovanna Drpic |
- Megan Vega |
- Jennifer Jordan |
- Marian Etoile Watson |
- Cora-Ann Mihalik |
- Pat Collins |
- Ti-Hua Chang |
- Tena Ezzeddine
Barbara Nevins Taylor
Unit 9 Reporter
Barbara Nevins Taylor is an Emmy-winning investigative reporter with My9 news, WWOR-TV. She has worked as a television correspondent for more than twenty-five years. Before taking a hiatus from reporting in 1992 to devote attention to a foster child, she was a correspondent for WCBS-TV. Previously, she was the chief political correspondent at WAGA in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her television reporting career at WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama and went on to work as an anchor and reporter at WKYT in Lexington, Kentucky.
In 2007, Nevins Taylor won 4 Emmy Awards from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has won 17 Emmy Awards and dozens of journalism honors during her career, including a “Laurel” from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Recently she won the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists' Enterprise Reporting award for "Flip This House," her reports exposing a sweetheart real estate deal between a Queens, New York man, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development that helped triple the price of houses in several New York City neighborhoods. The Newswomen's Club of New York also honored her for this report.
Also in 2007, the Long Island Fair Media Council singled Nevins Taylor out for two Folio Awards. She won the Consumer/Business reporting award for her report about schools in the New York state university system and the Enterprise award for her story about the dangers of elderly drivers.
In 2006, The New York Press Club presented her with its Consumer Reporting Award for "Steal This House." She was also honored with an Associated Press Award for this work, as well as a top award from The New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and a finalist citation from the New York Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, she won the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalism Enterprise award for her investigation of the Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey. She also won an Emmy for writing her investigative reports.
As an investigative reporter, her reports have sparked a United States Senate hearing, and crackdowns by HUD, the New York State Attorney General, The New York State Banking Department, and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.
The alumni of The City College of New York awarded her the prestigious Townsend Harris Medal in recognition of her outstanding achievements. Nevins Taylor was also named to The City College Communications Alumni Hall of Fame.
Nevins Taylor has been a contributor to The New York Times Op-Ed page, writing about issues affecting young people in New York City. She has written a book called Beautiful Skin of Color, with doctors Jeanine Downie and Fran Cook-Bolden, published by ReganBooks, which evolved from her television reports.
A Trustee of The Community Service Society of New York, she is a member of the Rutgers University Journalism Advisory Board, and has been a foster mother and a mentor to many children.
Nevins Taylor is married to writer and Authors Guild past President Nick Taylor and is a black belt in full contact, traditional karate and practices yoga.