largest newspaper chain in the United States will hire a reporter to cover one of the biggest names in music: Taylor Swift.

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Hi, and Welcome to Taylor Swift
Today, a short roundup of all the

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headlines around Taylor's music, tours,
movies, and life. Gannett, the

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largest newspaper chain in the United States, announced on Tuesday that it would hire

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a reporter to cover one of the
biggest names in music, Taylor Swift,

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as Swift's prominence grows during her record
breaking tour. Gannett said he was looking

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for a reporter who could capture the
significance of her music, as well as

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her growing legacy and the effect she
has across them music and business worlds.

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The reporter would be writing for USA
Today and The Tennessee and the publisher's newspaper

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in Nashville, where Swift began her
career as a country darling before selling out

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stadiums across North America on her record
breaking eras tour. The job reflects the

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frenzied fandom that has surrounded Taylor,
whose cultural resonance seems to deepen with each

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album, including the recordings of her
old music. Her fans have spent thousands

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of dollars on concert tickets and shook
the ground so hard at one concert that

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it registered as an earthquake. On
a seismometer near Seattle. Reactions to the

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job posting have been mixed, including
praise for Gannett for trying to reach a

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new audience and criticism over how the
company has laid off local journalists in recent

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years. Between fangirling over in Sync
and Dancing Too Shakira and racking up a

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whopping nine moon person trophies, Taylor
had a big night at the twenty twenty

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three Mtvmas, which unfortunately appeared to
include losing part of her ring. At

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the MTV Awards this week, Taylor
accessorized her seemingly reputation inspired Vama's work with

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an assortment of gold and silver jewelry
and appeared to break one of the rings

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during the night thanks to a camera
fee that focused exclusively on her per variety.

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The moment is immortalized in a snippet
of the Tuesday night broadcast that was

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shared on x It appears the diamond
in the center of the ring fell off

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as watched the ceremony, Taylor seemingly
recruits staff members at the venue to help

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her scour the ground for the missing
stone, with one person even using a

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flashlight in the search effort. While
showing one of the event employees her broken

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ring. Taylor, in true Swift
fashion, made a very concerned and memable

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face, turning the unfortunate event into
a bed of a viral moment. It

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is not clear from the cliff if
she ever recovered the missing ring, and

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she did not wear it on stage
while accepting her VMA's The gold Statement ring

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is a vintage onyx and diamond ring
from Van Cleef and our Pels that has

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being sold for twelve thousand dollars by
Joseph Sadeen and Sons, who provided the

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singer with the vintage sparkler. Demi
Levato reacts to Taylor dancing to her MTV

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Vimes performance after a past feud.
This from et. The pop stars were

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friends growing up before having a falling
out and then patching things up years later,

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but it doesn't seem to look like
there's any bad blood between the due

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now. After Demi took to the
MTV Video Music Awards stage to perform a

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medley of her hits with her new
rock Edge, she made it clear that

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she appreciated Swift's response to the performance. Throughout the live broadcast, Taylor was

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spotted in the audience dancing and singing
along to DEM's songs. She reposted several

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of the videos which were flagged to
her by fans, and after a Swift

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fan account tweeted a video of the
Grammy winner dancing with her drink too Cool

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for the Summer, Demi replied to
the post on x with a series of

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heart covered smiley faces to me.
Also addressed the alist audience reaction to her

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performance during a recent Instagram live,
saying I was really proud of it.

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I'm really happy with it, and
it was nice to see everybody enjoying it

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in the audience dancing to it.
Kelsey Ballerini and Taylor Swift seeing them dance

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to that made my heart warm.
That was really nice. In addition to

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her historic whims at the Vames,
Swift also went viral for jamming out to

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some performances in the audience at the
annual Awards show back with More Taylor Just

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a Moment. Despite initial reports that
Mattie Healey would be featured on Taylor Swift's

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recording of nineteen eighty nine despite their
public break up, but back in June,

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a spokesperson has confirmed that he will
not be on the forthcoming record neither

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Matt Healey nor the nineteen seventy five
are on this album, they told dailymail

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dot Com. The Sun alleged Healey
would appear on the album. Taylor and

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Maddie record of the song when they
were dating. A music insider told the

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publication at the time, they're not
even in contact anymore, but there's no

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hard feelings and Taylor will still release
the tune. Taylor was a big fan

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of the nineteen seventy five way before
she and Maddie hooked up. The band

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worked with her on her Midnight's album, but the songs they made never came

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out, and they have it.
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This is Taylor Swift today.