ICYMI - The Day MTV News Went Down
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Patrick Hosken to discuss the downfall and disappearance of MTV News. In May 2023, Paramount Global laid off 25 percent of its workforce, which included MTV News staffers like Hosken. A year later, Hosken had a new job at Rochester’s CITY Magazine when he clicked on his own MTV News articles and discovered they were gone because the website had been taken down. On today’s episode, Hosken describes the emotional journey of getting laid off, watching decades of music journalism disappear and how this was a lesson in internet preservation.
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| 0:55.2 | And joining me today on the show is an arts and culture writer for Rochester City magazine. |
| 0:59.4 | He's also a former editor at MTV News. |
| 1:01.8 | It's Patrick Hoskin. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, Patrick. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:05.6 | Patrick, it is so nice to have you on the show. |
| 1:07.6 | I have a dying question, which is, where were you |
| 1:09.9 | when President Joe Biden dropped out of the election? |
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