Rob Taylor has covered health and science off and on in an eclectic journalistic career. He also covered environmental issues, politics, law and justice, banking, and federal and state governments.
He spent most of his career writing for newspapers, most notably The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote from the Washington Bureau for nine years. Rob freelanced and taught journalism internationally. As Director of Environmental and Science Journalism at the not-for-profit International Center for Journalists, based in Washington, DC, he ran seminars in more than a dozen countries in Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia.
Rob earned his BA in History from Princeton University and enjoyed a mid-career fellowship at Stanford University.
After retiring, Rob and his wife, Toni, managed a horse farm in rural Virginia, where he also worked as an Emergency Medical Technician. He and his wife moved on to New Hampshire, where she’s still riding, and he’s still writing.