“Perhaps the most significant loss is MTV News’ vast hip-hop-related archives, particularly its weekly "Mixtape Mondays" column, which ran for nearly a decade in the 2000s and 2010s and featured interviews, reviews and more with many artists, producers and others early in their careers.”
Paramount Global shut MTV News in May 2023 and has now deleted what it published. A week earlier it pulled decades of country-music journalism off the CMT site. One former staffer said eight years of their life were gone without a trace. Paramount fired the writers first and erased their work second.