Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
BBC Content Chief Charlotte Moore Says Staff Face “Great Jeopardy” Amid Funding Squeeze
deadline.comThe BBC’s content chief has warned that employees face a moment of “great jeopardy” as the British broadcaster wrestles with funding pressures and fierce competition from U.S.
streamers. Charlotte Moore said the BBC does not have a “God-given right to exist” and must embrace change if it is going to survive well into its second century of broadcasting.
Speaking at a Voice of the Listener & Viewer conference in London, Moore reflected on the difficult choices the BBC has to make as it bids to plug a £1.4B ($1.7B) hole in its finances after the license fee was frozen last year.
The comments could be read as a signal that more job cuts are to come. “There’s great jeopardy for all of our staff at the BBC at the moment and for anybody who works in public service broadcasting,” the Chief Content Officer said. “We all know the competition is enormous, but it is for the BBC to have the courage to look at new models to stand firm and to really think about the ways that we might be able to do things in the future.” She was speaking in the context of the BBC shutting down its BBC Singers choir, only to later reverse the decision following a public outcry.
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