Beth Randolph Taylor

Beth Randolph Taylor is a doctoral student at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is forever a Jayhawk as she holds a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism, both from the University of Kansas.

Her career started in New York as a financial journalist covering mutual funds, institutional investing, 401(k)s, the stock and bond markets, individual stocks and market indicators at Dow Jones News Service, where her byline appeared in publications across the country from The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s to Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle and Chicago Sun-Times.

She took her Wall Street communications expertise to public relations agencies Shandwick International (St. Louis) and Fleishman-Hillard (Kansas City, St. Louis) where she did investor relations, crisis management and corporate positioning counsel for regional, national and international clients.

Later she moved to American Century Investments in Kansas City where she managed media relations, designed and executed media and marketing campaigns on personal finance topics, served as a spokesperson and managed media tours. Her teaching experience includes several years as a professor of journalism and mass communications at Johnson County Community College.