Bethlehem Press editor George Taylor was among 10 journalism educators honored with the Journalism Education Association's Lifetime Achievement Award presented recently in Indianapolis.

JEW, a nationwide organization of scholastic and collegiate journalism educators, gives this award to retirees for lifetime dedication to journalism education.Before starting to work for the Times News in Lehighton and eventually the Bethlehem Press, Taylor advised Tamaqua Area High School's student newspaper, the Blue and White, for 15 years.That publication in a small coal-region school was often named among the top student publications in the nation.Many of his students won numerous state and national awards.He served as executive director of the Pennsylvania School Press Association for eight years and edited the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's quarterly publication, Adviser Update, for 22 years, from 1994 to 2016.Named the Dow Jones News Fund's National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year in 1985, Taylor also received the Columbia (University) Scholastic Press Association's Gold Key and National School Press Association's Pioneer Award.