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.
Reese Schonfeld (1931 – 2020), cofounder of CNN and Food Network
legacy.comReese Schonfeld was the cofounder and first president of CNN, later going on to cofound Food Network.Trained as a lawyer, Schonfeld never practiced.
Instead, he got his start working in newsreels with United Press Movietone News, then founded the Independent Television News Association to provide news footage to TV stations.
Ted Turner found Schonfeld there in 1979, asking him to help start a 24-hour news channel. The two launched CNN in 1980 with Schonfeld as its first president, developing programming and hiring commentators including Daniel Schorr (1916 – 2010) and Pat Buchanan.
Turner fired Schonfeld after two years, and in 1993, he cofounded Food Network and became its first president. In later years, Schonfeld was outspoken against.
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