Adrian Taylor (producer)

In May 2013, Taylor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, on March 21, 2014, at the age of 60. He was a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.

Taylor spent his last four years at CBS News as a producer for 60 Minutes. He co-produced a 60 Minutes segment, called "Joy in the Congo," on the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Joy in the Congo" originally broadcast on Easter Sunday in 2012. The segment won a Peabody Award in May 2013.

Clem Taylor spent nearly twenty years with CBS News. He worked as a CBS producer based in Washington D.C., Dallas, and New York City. He was assigned as a producer based in the White House during the Reagan administration during the 1980s. Taylor covered the Reykjavík Summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland in 1986. In the late 1990s, he was named a senior producer of The Early Show during the late 1990s.

Taylor's last segment for 60 Minutes focused on a group of men who staged the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Adrian Clemens "Clem" Taylor (January 27, 1954 – March 21, 2014) was an American television news producer, noted for his work on 60 Minutes, The Early Show and CBS News. Taylor won a Peabody Award for his 60 Minutes segment, "Joy in the Congo", which featured the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition to his Peabody, Taylor also won eight Emmy Awards over the course of his broadcasting career.

Taylor was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on January 27, 1954. As a high school student, Taylor created "Morning Announcements," a televised school announcement show broadcast within his school, and became a paid sports reporter for the local newspaper, The Doylestown Intelligencer. Taylor received his bachelor's degree from Boston College, where he had served as the editor of BC's student newspaper, The Heights.