'Charlotte Observer' Names New Editorial Page Editor

By: E&P Staff Taylor Batten has been named editorial page editor of The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, effective Sept. 15.

Taylor, 39, joined the Observer in 1995 as a business reporter, and was the lead reporter in John Edwards? election to the U.S. Senate in 1998. He has since served as night city editor, government editor, copy desk chief and was the newsroom?s night captain in charge of Page One.

Before coming to the Observer, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and interned at The New York Times and The Boston Globe.