Michael Taylor
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The New York Times,
Financial Times,
National Geographic Traveler,
PBS,
WIRED Magazine,
SFGate,
Sports Illustrated,
Chron,
Flipboard,
Smithsonian Magazine
and
Covers:
Science, the environment, books and authors, outdoor adventure, travel, and -- more than any other journalist -- caves and caving.
Doesn't Cover:
I'm curious about the world: If it's a good story, I'll cover most anything.
Writing about caves and books, teaching journalism, rocking out. muckrack.com/michael-taylor-32
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Michael Taylor’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Michael Ray Taylor is the author of several nonfiction books, including the Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves, Cave Passages, Dark Life, Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms, and The Cat Manual (a humorous ebook). He is coauthor of a textbook, Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction.
As a journalist, Mike has written about science, exploration, and the environment for Smithsonian, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Houston Chronicle, Wired, Outside, Reader’s Digest, Audubon, and ma…
Michael Taylor’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
See all 14 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Freelance assignments to McCall's magazine.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Throughout college and into grad school, when I bought an early Compaq that looked like a sewing machine.
How is social media changing news?
By killing great legacy publications and threatening facts. On the plus side, it seems to have breathed new life into long-form.