“The Taylor Swift Season”: How Football Writers Made Peace With Covering Travis Kelce’s Love Life

Iowa Nears • Trump-Fox Reunion • Washington Post Rattled [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( “The Taylor Swift Season”: How Football Writers Made Peace With Covering Travis Kelce’s Love Life Ahead of tonight’s Chiefs-Dolphins game, Tom Kludt, who [profiled]( Travis Kelce before Taylor Swift came into the picture, [checked in]( with football writers about what it’s been like covering this season amid the tabloid glare. “We all thought football was pretty important and that people get pretty obsessed,” said Jesse Newell, the Chiefs beat writer for the Kansas City Star, adding: “But you bring Taylor Swift into this thing and you realize, Wow, she’s bigger. She’s way bigger.” Elsewhere, Charlotte Klein [reported]( on frustrations inside The Washington Post after a large round of buyouts, while Brian Stelter [found]( Fox News surrendering to Donald Trump. “Fox critics love to say Trump is the monster we created, okay, but we say it to ourselves too,” one Fox correspondent said after Wednesday night’s town hall. “We know it’s true.” Speaking of, with the Iowa caucuses just two days away, Gabriel Sherman [reported]( on the surprisingly disciplined Trump campaign that seems poised for a big victory. We’ll have more on Iowa Monday from Eric Lutz, who was in Des Moines for CNN’s Ron DeSantis–Nikki Haley [face-off](, and hit the ground after. See you then. —Michael Calderone, editor [“The Taylor Swift Season”: How Football Writers Made Peace With Covering Travis Kelce’s Love Life]( By [Tom Kludt]( [Chiefs scribes entered the season expecting the team’s defense of a Super Bowl title to dominate headlines; instead, they found themselves swept up by a modern-day version of DiMaggio and Monroe.]( [Read more button](   [Trump Insiders Say His 2024 Campaign Is More Disciplined: “This Time, He’s Not Talking to Randos”]( By [Gabriel Sherman]( [Despite facing 91 criminal counts, Trump is cruising to the GOP nomination without the chaos and infighting that consumed his 2016 run—and presidency.]( [Read more button](   [“A Pathetic Surrender”: Why Fox News Just Can’t Quit Donald Trump]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Wednesday’s Iowa town hall rankled staffers who see the network—like most of the GOP—falling in line behind the 2024 front-runner. As one correspondent acknowledged afterward, “Trump is the monster we created.”]( [Read more button](   [Washington Post Newsroom Is Rattled by Buyouts]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [Top reporters have urged executive editor Sally Buzbee and publisher Will Lewis to address the gutted research department, a casualty of the paper’s roughly 10% staff reduction.]( [Read more button](   [Image may contain: Tie, Accessories, Accessory, Electrical Device, Microphone, Human, Person, Suit, Coat, and Clothing]( [“Where Is the Party Heading?”: Inside the Populist Awakening of Bernie, Warren, and AOC]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Author Joshua Green chronicles the trajectory of the Democratic Party following the 2008 financial crisis, which spurred a reemergence of labor organizing and pulled Joe Biden closer to his left flank.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast