Sam Taylor is a Media Analyst at the Washington Free Beacon. Before joining the staff at the Free Beacon, he worked at a media monitoring organization in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. State Department in Saudi Arabia. Sam speaks Arabic and specializes in the Middle Eastern media landscape. He graduated from Syracuse University in 2012 and from the University of Chicago in 2014. He hails from Houston, Texas, and can be found on Twitter @Tex_Taylor.