Taylor Epps is the weekend anchor and reporter at 7 News in Buffalo. She joined WKBW in June 2019 after graduating from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
She feels blessed to call Buffalo a second home.
In her five years in WNY, Epps has covered a wide range of community-based stories from following veterans to D.C. with Honor Flight Buffalo Niagara twice, to traveling across the pond to cover Bills Mafia in London.
Here at home, she's raised the voices of neighbors through the more difficult times, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the mass shooting at Tops. She has followed the rise in car thefts in Buffalo, efforts to bring safety to a dangerous stretch of road in Hamburg and pressed for answers until healthcare workers in Buffalo got the money they were promised. But she takes pleasure in showing off the positive stories that rise out of those hard times, from a woman's journey through cancer getting the attention of her favorite rapper Drake, to highlighting some of the gems of Jefferson Avenue.
Epps won a New York Emmy Award for her work in the days following the May 14th shooting. She was recognized as one of the 30 under 30 Changemakers of 2020. She was honored by Buffalo Black Achievers in 2022.
She is a board member of the Buffalo Association of Black Journalists and the Buffalo Broadcasters Association.
She is a dog mom to a dachshund mix named Reese and gets home to see her mom, dad and sister in South Jersey by the beach whenever she can.
