MTV News, once home to the hippest anchor desk of Generation X, will shut down after 36 years. Its parent company, Paramount Global, told staff that layoffs would affect 25 percent of employees at Showtime, MTV Studios and Paramount Media Networks.
Although it hasn’t been a major news organization in decades, MTV News joins many other outlets that have faced severe reductions or shutdowns in recent months, including CNN,The popular music channel launched its news operation in the late
1980s, and for a time found popularity with Generation X and older millennials tired of traditional anchors. “We know the latest, hippest music to put something with. That’s our strength,” Dave Sirulnick, the news operation’s then-27-year-old director,
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