About
Taylor Moore is an award-winning investigative journalist in Chicago who writes about politics, social justice and the environment. She has been published in The Guardian, VICE, TIME, The New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, In These Times, CityLab, Next City, Chicago Reader, WBEZ, Block Club Chicago, South Side Weekly and other news outlets.
In 2022, she was part of a Guardian US team that used public water testing data to reveal the depths of Chicago’s lead pipe crisis. The investigation spurred 14 U.S. Senators to call on the EPA to lower the levels of lead allowable in drinking water, require all lead pipes to be replaced in the next decade, and ensure that low-income neighborhoods can benefit equally from the remediation efforts. In 2023, she was a reporting apprentice with the Investigative Project on Race & Equity, where she co-reported an award-winning investigation into racial discrimination in Illinois traffic stops.
Most recently, she was an associate program manager for the International Women’s Media Foundation, where she led a grant program that disbursed more than $230,000 a year to women and nonbinary journalists of all nationalities; a mentorship program for underrepresented journalists and a prestigious fellowship in collaboration with The Boston Globe, The New York Times and MIT’s Center for International Studies. She also managed the IWMF’s journalism awards.
She has served on the Chicago chapter boards of the Asian American Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2023, she was co-lead for FOIA Fest Boot Camp, a mentorship program for early-career journalists of color interested in investigative journalism.
Born in China, she was raised in Orlando, Florida, and graduated from the University of Central Florida.
PRESS
Nieman Reports: Newsrooms Want to Diversify. These Programs Can Help
Interviews about The Guardian lead story: NPR’s All Things Considered, WTTW Chicago Tonight, City Cast Chicago, WCPT 820 (Joan Esposito Live, Local & Progressive), The Young Turks
City Cast Chicago: Demanding Safer Roads and More Trees. Plus, Iconic Lions Get a Bath!
WBEZ Reset: Why aren’t Chicago’s public spaces more like Europe’s?
Arts of Travel Podcast: Reporting on Misconduct in Chicago's Slam Poetry Scene
Pocket: “A Silence Louder Than Words” spotlighted by Jasmine Mithani in Top Authors Share Their Must Reads
CAN TV: CAN TV Conversations with Taylor Moore from AAJA-Chicago
Literary Hub: The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2020 by Adam Morgan
Business Insider: Brave new freelancing world: Writers and editors share 5 key tips for pitching and landing paid work in the middle of a pandemic by Mark Stenberg
WTTW-PBS Chicago: The Vital Role of Community Newspapers Like 'The Korea Times Chicago' by Daniel Hautzinger
Columbia Journalism Review: Freelancers resist precarity by sharing rates and organizing by Elizabeth King
AWARDS
Profiled: The State of Traffic Stops in Illinois
Winner, 2024 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting, Better Government Association
Winner, Watchdog Award, 2023 Peter Lisagor Awards
Winner, Best Investigative Reporting, 2023 Peter Lisagor Awards
Winner, Best Reporting on Race and Diversity, 2023 Peter Lisagor Awards
Finalist, Best Multimedia Collaboration, 2023 Peter Lisagor Awards
Finalist, Best Use of Data Visualization, 2023 Peter Lisagor Awards
Finalist for Best Public Service/Engagement, Revealed: the ‘shocking’ levels of toxic lead in Chicago tap water, 2022 Peter Lisagor Awards
Fund for Investigative Journalism Grantee, 2021
Finalist for Best Literary Coverage, The Life and Death of an American Indie Press, 2019 Peter Lisagor Awards
SPEAKING
I’ve been a moderator, panelist and guest speaker for events, workshops and classes associated with:
American Bar Foundation
Asian American Journalists Association
Chicago Headline Club’s FOIAFest
City Bureau
Columbia College Chicago
International Women’s Media Foundation
Investigative Reporters & Editors
Public Narrative
Study Hall
Women & Children First
AFFILIATIONS
Asian American Journalists Association
Chicago Headline Club
Investigative Reporters & Editors
Society of Professional Journalists