Terry Taylor, trailblazing Associated Press sports editor, dies at age 71

Terry Taylor, trailblazing Associated Press sports editor, dies at age 71

NEW YORK — Terry R. Taylor, who in two trailblazing decades as the first female sports editor of The Associated Press transformed the news agency’s emphasis into multilayered coverage of rigorous reporting, entertaining enterprise and edgy analysis, has died. She was 71.

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