Alex Taylor is a journalism student at the University of Maryland, College Park. A Baltimore native, he is the news director at his university’s radio station, WMUC-FM, and has freelanced for the South Baltimore Peninsula Post and interned at Baltimore Witness. In his free time, he loves going on long walks, preferably by the water. He will work on The Banner’s news desk as a general assignment reporter through a partnership with Merrill’s Local News Network.