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MTV News is the news division of MTV
MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
, the first and most popular music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
 in the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, as well as some of MTV's related channels around the world
List of MTV channels

This list of MTV channels includes every channel broadcast by MTV Networks or its partners or affiliates, beginning with the original MTV channel in the USA, and proceeding by continent, in order of arrival....
. MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week In Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served as in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary"....
, the first official MTV News correspondent.

It first began covering political news in the 1992 American presidential elections
United States presidential election, 1992

The United States presidential elections of 1992 featured a battle between incumbent President of the United States United States Republican Party George H....
, through its "Choose or Lose campaign. Since then, MTV has run "Choose or Lose" for other presidential elections
United States presidential election

Elections for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the Electoral College , who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President....
 in the United States.






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MTV News is the news division of MTV
MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
, the first and most popular music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
 in the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, as well as some of MTV's related channels around the world
List of MTV channels

This list of MTV channels includes every channel broadcast by MTV Networks or its partners or affiliates, beginning with the original MTV channel in the USA, and proceeding by continent, in order of arrival....
. MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week In Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served as in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary"....
, the first official MTV News correspondent.

It first began covering political news in the 1992 American presidential elections
United States presidential election, 1992

The United States presidential elections of 1992 featured a battle between incumbent President of the United States United States Republican Party George H....
, through its "Choose or Lose campaign. Since then, MTV has run "Choose or Lose" for other presidential elections
United States presidential election

Elections for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the Electoral College , who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President....
 in the United States. For the 2008 election
United States presidential election, 2008

The United States presidential election of 2008 was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. It was the 56th consecutive wikt:quadrennial United States United States presidential election....
, Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
 and Hillary Clinton appeared on an MTV special to discuss the Iraq war.

MTV News in the U.S.


Current correspondents

  • Sway Calloway
    Sway Calloway

    Sway Calloway, usually credited as Sway, is a reporter and executive producer for MTV News. He is also the co-host of the nationally Radio syndication radio show The Wake Up Show....
     (usually called Sway)
  • Liz Hernandez
  • Tim Kash
    Tim Kash

    Tim Kash is a former presenter of BBC1's Top of the Pops and MTV News on MTV UK and Ireland, MTV Europe, MTV Africa and MTV Arabia. In 2007, Kash signed a new deal as the new face of MTV and MTV News at the channel's headquarters in New York....
  • Kurt Loder
    Kurt Loder

    Kurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served as in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary"....
  • Kim Stolz
    Kim Stolz

    Kimberly Lynn "Kim" Stolz is an United States model and television personality. Stolz is a correspondent for MTV News and serves as VJ and host for The Freshman , a series on mtvU....


Former correspondents

  • Serena Altschul
    Serena Altschul

    Serena Altschul is an United States broadcast journalist, well known for her work at MTV News. She is the daughter of Arthur Altschul, former Goldman Sachs partner and banking mogul who was on the board of trustees of many museums and philanthropic organizations....
  • Chris Connelly
    Chris Connelly (reporter)

    Chris Connelly is an United States sports and entertainment reporter.Connelly joined ESPN in 2001 to host the daily interview program Unscripted with Chris Connelly, designed to be a more contemporary version of the long-running Up Close interview show which previously occupied the 5PM ET timeslot....
  • Mark Goodman
    Mark Goodman

    Mark Goodman is a radio DJ, TV personality, and actor. He is best known as one of the original five VJ s on MTV, from 1981-1987. He is currently a DJ for Sirius Satellite Radio with three of the other original MTV VJs, Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn, and Alan Hunter....
  • Brian McFayden
    Brian McFayden

    Brian McFayden is an United States television personality.He was formerly an MTV VJ . McFayden hosted Cupid on CBS and the host of the first season of The CW Television Network's Beauty and the Geek ....
  • John Norris
    John Norris (MTV News reporter)

    John Norris is a reporter and special correspondent for MTV News and the MTV Radio Network. He joined MTV as a writer in 1986 and became an on-air alternate for news anchor Kurt Loder in 1988....
  • SuChin Pak
    SuChin Pak

    SuChin Pak is a South Korean-born United States television news correspondent, frequently appearing on the cable networks of MTV.SuChin Pak joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May 2001....
  • Iann Robinson
    Iann Robinson

    Iann Robinson is an American writer, musician and television personality best known as a former MTV VJ . He is currently a Disc Jockey for Boston Based Radio Station WBCN 104.1...
  • Tabitha Soren
    Tabitha Soren

    Tabitha Soren is a former reporter for MTV News. She is perhaps best known as the public face for MTV's "Choose or Lose" campaign designed to inspire young people to vote....
  • Alison Stewart
  • Gideon Yago
    Gideon Yago

    Gideon Yago is a writer and former correspondent for MTV News and CBS News though he is most recognized for his contributions to MTV....
  • Nick Zano
    Nick Zano

    Nick Zano is an United States actor and television producer best known for playing Vince in the The WB Television Network sitcom What I Like About You ....


Executives

  • Benjamin Wagner, Vice President
  • Jonathan Mussman, Senior Director of Production
  • Ryan Kroft, Supervising Producer
  • Sean Lee
    Sean Lee

    Sean Patrick Lee is a linebacker and 2008 team captain for the Penn State Nittany Lions football. Lee was a starting outside linebacker for Coach Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions for two consecutive seasons, before sitting out the 2008 season with a knee injury....
    , Supervising Producer


Writers/Reporters

  • Larry Carroll
  • Josh Horowitz
    Josh Horowitz

    Joshua Horowitz is an United States klezmer accordionist and cimbalom player as well as a musical scholar, klezmer teacher and ethnomusicologist....
  • Gil Kaufman
  • James Montgomery
  • Shaheem Reid
  • Stephen Totilo


Producers

  • Garth Bardsley, Segment Producer
  • Akshay Bhansali, Segment Producer
  • Jim Cantiello, Segment Producer
  • Brian Jacks
    Brian Jacks

    Brian Jacks is a United Kingdom judoka who won Britain's first medal at a world championship, taking a bronze in Salt Lake City in 1967, and gained a second bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics....
    , Senior Producer
  • Daniel Montalto, Segment Producer
  • Joseph Patel, Senior Producer
  • Andrew Ross Rowe, Associate Producer
  • Christopher "CJ" Smith, Segment Producer
  • Vanessa White Wolf, Segment Producer


Programs

  • The Week In Rock (John Norris and Kurt Loder)
  • True Life
    True Life

    True Life is a documentary film series running on MTV since 1998. Each episode follows a particular topic such as heroin addiction in the first episode, "Fatal Dose"....
     (Serena Altschul, John Norris, and Gideon Yago)
  • MTV News Now (Various Reporters)
  • MTV News: 1515 (Various Reporters)
  • The Wrap on MTV2 (Gideon Yago and Iann Robinson)
  • My Block (Sway Calloway)
  • My Life (Translated) (SuChin Pak)
  • 10-To-The-Hour Updates (Various Reporters)
  • Grammy Pre-Show (Various Reporters)
  • VMA Pre-Show (Various Reporters)
  • VMA Post-Show (Various Reporters)
  • MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show (Various Reporters)
  • MTV Movie Awards Post-Show (Various Reporters)
  • After The Tsunami (Cyrus Broacha, Tim Kash, SuChin Pak, and Gideon Yago)
  • After the Storm (Gideon Yago, Sway Calloway, and SuChin Pak)
  • All Eyes On (Various Reporters)
  • Voices from Virginia (SuChin Pak, John Norris, Kurt Loder, Sway Calloway)
  • MTV/MySpace Presidental Dialogues
  • The Paper
    The Paper (TV series)

    The Paper is a reality show on MTV. The show covers the lives of the Cypress Bay High School newspaper staff, focusing mostly on four senior editors....
  • Sex with Mom and Dad


Social campaigns

Further information: MTV: Social activism
MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
  • Choose or Lose, a pro-democracy campaign geared to encourage college-aged students to vote
  • Fight For Your Rights, campaigns against violence, discrimination; promoting safe sex
  • think MTV, about education, discrimination, sexual health, environment, and global issues


MTV News around the world


Canada

Aliya-Jasmine Sovani, Johnny Hockin, Sharlene Chiu

UK

Rickie Haywood Williams
Rickie Haywood Williams

Rickie Haywood Williams, , is a Disk jockey#Radio DJs and television presenter from Croydon, England....


Ireland

Laura Whitmore
Laura Whitmore

Laura Whitmore is a television presenter for MTV Europe....

Pan-European

Laura Whitmore
Laura Whitmore

Laura Whitmore is a television presenter for MTV Europe....

Germany

Markus Kavka Karolin
Karolin

Karolin may refer to the following places:*Karolin, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship *Karolin, Podlaskie Voivodeship *Karolin, Gmina Garb?w in Lublin Voivodeship ...


The Netherlands

Dennis Weening Evelien Bosch

Latin America

  • Ilana Sod
    Ilana Sod

    Ilana Sod is currently MTV Latin America's News presenter#Latin American newsreaders and Editor-in-Chief for Public affairs programming. She is also a weekly columnist for the Mexican newspaper Exc?lsior and contributor for es:XEDA-AM in the metropolitan area of Mexican Federal District....
  • Jazz
  • Nicolás Artusi
  • Javier Andrade


Australia

Maz Compton

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