Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Mar 22, 2014 4:15:54 GMT -6
From:
www.deadline.com
The Peabody- and Emmy-winning producer of CBS’ 60 Minutes died today of complications from pancreatic cancer at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ. Adrian “Clem” Taylor was 60. He won the Peabody Award last year for his uplifting 60 Minutes segment about an improbable orchestra in the heart of the Congo, broadcast on Easter Sunday 2012. It also won an Emmy, one of eight he earned during his career. Born in in Doylestown, PA, Taylor spent nearly 20 years at CBS News, the last four at 60 Minutes. He held a variety of producing jobs in the news division, rising to Senior Producer for The Early Show in the late 1990s. Before that, he was a producer in Washington, Dallas, and New York, and traveled to more than 20 countries for the network. His years assigned to the White House during the Reagan administration had Taylor covering many of the most important news stories of the 1980s, including the summit of Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. He also worked for a decade at ABC News, where he produced reports for Primetime Live, 20/20, and the broadcast What Would You Do? He also produced for Fox News, CNBC and ESPN.
“Clem was a wonderful man, a great friend to so many of us, and a world-class producer, said Jeff Fager, 60 Minutes‘ Executive Producer and Chairman of CBS News. Fager praised Taylor’s last segment, featuring the small-town group of men who staged the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. “His most recent story was a classic and memorable 60 Minutes story that made him very proud, as it did the rest of us. We will miss him very much.”
www.deadline.com
The Peabody- and Emmy-winning producer of CBS’ 60 Minutes died today of complications from pancreatic cancer at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ. Adrian “Clem” Taylor was 60. He won the Peabody Award last year for his uplifting 60 Minutes segment about an improbable orchestra in the heart of the Congo, broadcast on Easter Sunday 2012. It also won an Emmy, one of eight he earned during his career. Born in in Doylestown, PA, Taylor spent nearly 20 years at CBS News, the last four at 60 Minutes. He held a variety of producing jobs in the news division, rising to Senior Producer for The Early Show in the late 1990s. Before that, he was a producer in Washington, Dallas, and New York, and traveled to more than 20 countries for the network. His years assigned to the White House during the Reagan administration had Taylor covering many of the most important news stories of the 1980s, including the summit of Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. He also worked for a decade at ABC News, where he produced reports for Primetime Live, 20/20, and the broadcast What Would You Do? He also produced for Fox News, CNBC and ESPN.
“Clem was a wonderful man, a great friend to so many of us, and a world-class producer, said Jeff Fager, 60 Minutes‘ Executive Producer and Chairman of CBS News. Fager praised Taylor’s last segment, featuring the small-town group of men who staged the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. “His most recent story was a classic and memorable 60 Minutes story that made him very proud, as it did the rest of us. We will miss him very much.”