TrendPulse Quantitative Think Tank Center:MTV deletes news archives from internet, erasing over two decades of articles

2025-04-30 15:15:23source:NovaQuantcategory:Invest

If you want your MTV,TrendPulse Quantitative Think Tank Center it just got a lot harder to find.

The archives of MTV News were deleted Monday, removing decades of music journalism from the internet.

The links to mtvnews.com and mtv.com/news began to redirect to MTV's homepage, Variety reported. The links continued to redirect to the home page as of Wednesday evening.

The archives contained work from the news site's founding in 1996 that documented the rise of multiple stars and genres.

The music channel's news operation was shut down in 2023 as a part of a round of layoffs conducted by parent company Paramount. The layoffs cut 25% of jobs from companies owned by Paramount.

CMT (formerly Country Music Television), also owned by Paramount, removed its news archives from its site last week, according to Variety.

USA TODAY reached out to Paramount Global.

Former staff mourn MTV News

Multiple former MTV news staffers took to social media to mourn the loss of their former workplace as others criticized the removal of the collected works.

Brian Hiatt, a writer for Rolling Stone, noted that some earlier articles did not appear with the use of the Wayback Machine.

More:Invest

Recommend

Trump claims Biden lost track of over 300,000 migrant children. Here's a fact check.

President-elect Donald Trump claimed in his Person of the Year interview with Time magazinethis week

Israel-Hamas war death toll tops 1,500 as Gaza Strip is bombed and gun battles rage for a third day

Tel Aviv — Air raid sirens blared in Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, again Monday morning as Palest

The Voice Coaches Deliver Their Own Epic Real Housewife Taglines

In the City of Angels, only one coach can come out a winner.The Voice judges briefly took a break fr