Chanda Taylor

Chanda Taylor, television producer who worked at CNN and WSB-TV in Atlanta, dead at 35

ATLANTA - Chanda Taylor, a television producer who worked at CNN and WSB-TV in Atlanta, died Thursday after a battle with brain cancer. She was 35.

Taylor died at her home in Newnan, according to the Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home.

In 1998, Taylor became a news producer at WSB, where former colleagues remember her as levelheaded and steady in the tumultuous environment of television news.

Taylor was a graduate of Northwestern University's journalism school in Evanston, Ill. At WSB, she produced newscasts in every time slot before leaving the station in 2005 to become an executive producer at WFTV in Orlando, Fla.

Taylor returned to Atlanta in 2007 to become a producer at CNN.

Taylor also was president of the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and is credited with being a strong leader in a time of transition and financial uncertainty for the organization.