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Rise of ‘ghost newsrooms’ spawns effort by local news startups to fill the void
NEW YORK (AFP) – It’s rare for a news outlet to dedicate a reporter to one personality, but the publication USA Today has decided Taylor Swift and Beyonce are phenomena requiring their own beats. The recent announcement by Gannett, which owns USA Today, that it was seeking two journalists to cover the biggest names in […]
It's rare for a news outlet to dedicate a reporter to one personality, but the publication USA Today has decided Taylor Swift and Beyonce are phenomena requiring their own beats.There are so few things that everybody really kind of knows whether they're fans or not, and Beyonce and Taylor Swift are some of the very rare ones."
The announcement that Gannett, the owner of USA Today, was hiring two journalists to cover music's biggest superstars struck a nerve due to the American mass media holding company laying off 6% of its news division in December.
The publication reportedly downsized and fired hundreds of reporters over the past years