Desirée Taylor was a familiar face to New Jersey television viewers for nearly a decade. She was a reporter for the state's public broadcasting channel, the New Jersey Network (NJN), beginning in 2001.
Originally from Connecticut, Ms. Taylor actually pursued a career in the performing arts before switching to journalism. She was a dancer with the Philadelphia Dance Company before becoming an NJN reporter.
Sadly, she's no longer an NJN reporter. New Jersey governor Chris Christie, the fat man in the Statehouse, let a New York City-based public television take over NJN - no called NJTV - to save the state money. The New York-based managers of NJTV don't have use for a high-quality weeknightly newscast, and so the entire news staff - indeed, the entire NJN staff - was let go.
This blogger got to see Ms. Taylor in action when she was reporting for NJN about a library branch in Montclair, New Jersey, that, ironically, had been closed due to budget cuts but re-opened in a private-public partnership by local volunteers. Ms. Taylor covered the grand re-opening, and I was there. I even got to meet her.
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