Music video network shuts down news division

I can’t believe the news today: one of the iconic news organizations of the 1990s, MTV News, shut down operations Tuesday, marking the end of a division that brought the news of things as diverse as Kurt Cobain’s death, various presidential elections, and the drop of the latest Duran Duran album, per the LA Times. The news division of the music video network started as The Week in Rock featuring then-Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder, later producing a number of award-winning documentaries. MTV News was 36.

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