Tim Taylor is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 former Emmy-Award winning newscaster/investigative reporter and news anchor for FOX-TV Affiliate WJW-TV 8 in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

. Taylor served as the Chief Anchor of FOX 8 News at Six and Ten (formerly Newscenter 8 (1977-95) and Eight Is News (1995-96)), Monday through Friday on WJW. from 1977-2005, after beginning his television career with WEWS-TV

WEWS-TV

WEWS-TV, virtual channel 5 , is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio. WEWS has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception, and is an affiliate of the ABC television network...

, initially as the city’s first consumer ombudsman “Action Reporter” and then as weekend news anchor.

Career achievements and honors

Taylor is the second Cleveland television news anchorperson ever honored with the Cleveland Association of Broadcaster’s “Excellence in Broadcasting” Award. In addition to his primary anchor role, Taylor has covered presidential conventions, inaugurations, papal visits, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster and the World Series as well as one-on-one interviews with many of America ’s top newsmakers, including Presidents Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

, Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

, Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

, Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

, and Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

.

Biographical sketch

The first ten years of Taylor's career were spent in radio, including seven years as News Director of WHK 1420 Radio. It was there that Taylor earned recognition for his live coverage of such historic news events as the second Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...

 trial, the Hough Riots

Hough Riots

The Hough Riots were race riots in the predominantly African American community of Hough in Cleveland, Ohio that took place over a six-night period from July 18 to July 23, 1966. During the riots, four African Americans were killed and 30 people were critically injured. In addition, there were 275...

, the Glenville shootout

Glenville Shootout

The Glenville Shootout was a series of events of violent acts that occurred in the Glenville section of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, from the dates of July 23–28, 1968...

, complete live coverage of the aborted Apollo 13

Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST. The landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command...

 mission and the Kent State shootings

Kent State shootings

The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970...

, for which he received one of his three Emmy awards for his 25th anniversary perspective piece on the Kent State tragedy.

Personal life and interests

An avid golfer and outdoorsman, Tim is now retired, and he and his wife Cathy enjoy sharing their love of animals and nature with their six adult children and four grandchildren in suburban Cleveland.