The MTV News archive has been taken offline

The archives of the MTV News website, which had remained accessible online aft the portion was unopen down past twelvemonth by genitor institution Paramount Global, person present been wholly taken offline. As Variety reported yesterday, some mtvnews.com and mtv.com/news present redirect visitors to the MTV website’s beforehand page.

In May of past year, Showtime / MTV Entertainment Studios president and Paramount Media Networks groups CEO Chris McCarthy announced layoffs for 25 percent of its employees and said that MTV News, whose unit had already been reduced by erstwhile layoffs, would beryllium shutting down entirely.

Although the MTV News website was nary longer publishing caller stories, its extended archive, dating backmost implicit 2 decades to its motorboat successful 1996, remained online. But arsenic erstwhile staffers discovered yesterday, that archive is nary longer accessible. Patrick Hosken, who served arsenic a euphony and quality exertion astatine MTV News for 8 years, shared their vexation with the determination connected X:

According to Variety, Paramount Global besides took down the archives of MTV News sister tract CMT.com past week, which featured respective decades’ worthy of journalism focused connected the state euphony industry.