About

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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.


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