(New York) Serious announcement: America’s leading regional news group Gannett, owner of the USA Today network, is looking for an “energetic” multimedia reporter to exclusively cover pop megastar, cultural phenomenon and steamroller Taylor Swift commercial.
The ad “Taylor Swift Reporter” appeared Tuesday on the Dayforce job site, posted by Gannett for its USA Today newspapers and The Tennessean, a local publication of the USA Today Network: “Seeking an experienced reporter , oriented towards video and able to capture the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift”.
Gannett notes that “Swift’s fan base has reached unprecedented heights, as has the importance of her music and legacy” in the United States and around the world.
The USA Today Network and its Tennessee newspaper want to hire “an energetic editor, photographer and social media pro who will have an insatiable thirst for everything Taylor Swift does across all platforms.”
What’s needed is “a creative, energetic journalist who reports on the excitement surrounding Swift’s current tour and upcoming album, while providing thoughtful analysis of her music and career.”
USA Today warns that reporter “Taylor Swift” will need to have “a voice, but not a bias.”
The 33-year-old musician is a musical and cultural phenomenon and an economic juggernaut.
She has just completed part of her Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in the United States and Mexico and should make a detour to Canada in November 2024. She is due to head to Argentina at the end of the year, Europe, Asia and Australia until the end of 2024.
With 146 sold-out stadium dates, Taylor Swift – who started out at a young age in a bar in Nashville, the “capital” of country – is expected to reach $1 billion in revenue.
In late August, she announced that her concerts would be the subject of a film to be released October 13 in AMC theaters in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Even the president of the branch of the American central bank (Fed) in New York, John Williams, spoke last Thursday of a stimulating “Taylor Swift” effect on the American economy in recent months.
In June, a thousand journalists and Gannett employees went on strike to demand reinvestment in the “decimated” local news coverage of USA Today Network’s 200 titles and the departure of the company’s ailing boss, Mike Reed.
