Richmond editor retires

News Editor Andrew C. Taylor III retired recently after three decades in the newspaper business, the last 12-plus years at The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
According to reports from the paper, Taylor joined The Richmond News Leader as business editor in 1989 and became business editor of The Times-Dispatch in 1994, editing a section that was named among the best in the nation by the Society of Business Editors and Writers.
He was named metro editor in 1996 where he oversaw coverage that included the hammering Virginia got from Hurricane Isabel in 2003, the Harvey and Tucker/ Baskerville murders in January 2006 and last year's Virginia Tech massacre, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
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