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.
Jew in the City Launches Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation: ‘We Want to Be Seen as Individuals’
variety.comSasha Urban editorThrough her organization Jew in the City (JITC), Allison Josephs has been advocating for accurate representations of the Jewish community in the media since 2007.
She’s now opening an official Hollywood bureau to elevate JITC’s efforts, something Josephs said she would have done earlier, but she had no idea such a thing even existed until last year.“We had been using social media, op-eds and relationships with reporters,” Josephs said, until she learned about other minority Hollywood bureaus created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), NAACP and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE).
The bureau celebrated its launch on Monday, and Josephs said the scope of its efforts will go beyond just Orthodox stories, although those are often the “most egregious.” “We started off really with the idea that this would be about Orthodox depictions, so we could get a seat at the table when our stories are being told,” said Josephs, who is an Orthodox Jew herself. “As we started talking about this, all of these non-Orthodox Hollywood writers and producers started contacting us secretly and saying, ‘We’re also not happy with our depictions.
We’re also not happy how fellow Jews are depicting us, how some non-Jews are depicting us.’”Currently, the bureau is still in its early stages, with no official Hollywood office or full-time staff yet.
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