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.
US’ biggest newspaper chain hires full-time Taylor Swift reporter
nme.comTaylor Swift reporter.Gannett recently recruited a journalist called Bryan West to work out of the Tennessee-based newsroom for USA Today and the chain’s more than 200 local dailies.“I would say this position’s no different than being a sports journalist who’s a fan of the home team,” West told Variety. “I just came from Phoenix, and all of the anchors there were wearing Diamondbacks gear; they want the Diamondbacks to win.
I’m just a fan of Taylor and I have followed her her whole career, but I also have that journalistic background: going to Northwestern, winning awards, working in newsrooms across the nation.
I think that’s the fun of this job is that, yeah, you can talk Easter eggs, but it really is more of the seriousness, like the impact that she has on society and business and music.”West previously worked for an NBC affiliate in Phoenix, often acting as “a one-man band” by carrying around a camera and shooting his own interviews.At the time, he was so renowned for his love of Swift among his colleagues that they ” would make fun of me [live on air], saying things like, ‘We’re surprised Bryan didn’t call in sick to work today because Taylor released a new album.’West also revealed that he had a more serious side, particularly when it came to the steps he took to get sober five years ago.“I was at a crossroads where I felt like I could live in this darkness or I could wake up and try and be a better person,” he said, “so part of that for me was stepping back from news.
I joined a local CrossFit gym that works with people in sobriety and recovery. And then I started working for a company where I traveled the U.S.
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