ALEX TAYLOR

TAYLOR--Alex L., III, age 79, a longtime reporter with Time and Fortune magazine who covered the auto industry with understated and unsurpassed flair, died on February 8, 2024 in Lakeville, CT, where he lived. A graduate of Kent School, he earned a Bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. He began his career with reporting stints at WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, MI, and The Detroit Free Press. As a journalist for Time and Fortune magazine, Alex was regarded as a smart, dogged reporter with meticulous storytelling skills and one of the most knowledgeable jcovering the auto industry. He won numerous awards for his writing, including three first prizes from the Detroit Press Club Foundation and "Journalist of the Year" from the Washington Automotive Press Association. A former adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, in 2000, he was selected one of 100 Notable Business Journalists of the 20th Century. He was a member of the International Motor Press Association and was on the jury for the North America Car of the Year Awards. Alex was the author of "Sixty to Zero: An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors - and the Detroit Auto Industry." Drawing on more than thirty years of experience and insight as an automotive industry reporter, the book was released to positive reviews in 2010. Beyond his work, Alex is remembered for his love of family and friends, tennis, nonfiction books, and Brooks Brothers. He was admired for his wit and all-around generosity, as well as his good cheer and courage living with Parkinson's. He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Mary; son, Alex; daughter, Madeleine; sisters Holly and Faith along with nieces and nephews. Please consider a donation to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. A memorial service will be held on June 15, 2024 at the Congregational Church of Salisbury, CT .