The largest newspaper chain within the US has employed a full-time Taylor Swift reporter.
Gannett just lately recruited a journalist known as Bryan West to work out of the Tennessee-based newsroom for USA Today and the chain’s greater than 200 native dailies.
“I might say this place’s no completely different than being a sports activities journalist who’s a fan of the house staff,” West instructed Variety. “I simply got here from Phoenix, and all the anchors there have been carrying Diamondbacks gear; they need the Diamondbacks to win. I’m only a fan of Taylor and I’ve adopted her her complete profession, however I even have that journalistic background: going to Northwestern, successful awards, working in newsrooms throughout the nation. I believe that’s the enjoyable of this job is that, yeah, you may speak Easter eggs, however it actually is extra of the seriousness, just like the impression that she has on society and enterprise and music.”
West beforehand labored for an NBC affiliate in Phoenix, typically performing as “a one-man band” by carrying round a digicam and taking pictures his personal interviews.
At the time, he was so famend for his love of Swift amongst his colleagues that they ” would make enjoyable of me [live on air], saying issues like, ‘We’re stunned Bryan didn’t name in sick to work immediately as a result of Taylor launched a brand new album.’
West additionally revealed that he had a extra severe facet, significantly when it got here to the steps he took to get sober 5 years in the past.
“I used to be at a crossroads the place I felt like I might reside on this darkness or I might get up and try to be a greater particular person,” he stated, “so a part of that for me was stepping again from information. I joined a neighborhood CrossFit gymnasium that works with individuals in sobriety and restoration. And then I began working for a corporation the place I traveled the U.S. working with highschool pupil leaders — and I liked that as a result of I might geek out and I need to be recognized for being particular person. And that was me stepping again from information.
“And I instructed them, jokingly, ‘If I might report on Taylor Swift every single day.’ So it virtually felt like a manifestation when that very same colleague texted me and stated, Hey, your dream job simply grew to become obtainable.’”
Meanwhile, Swift just lately launched the re-recorded model of her 2014 album ‘1989’, which went on to outsell the unique in gross sales for debut launch weeks, making it her greatest first week for an album ever. It additionally grew to become the primary ‘Taylor’s Version‘ re-recording to surpass the unique in its opening week in gross sales alone.
