MTV Deletes News Archives, Erasing Music Journalism History

MTV has deleted the archives of MTV News, removing decades of music journalism from the internet. Links to mtvnews.com and mtv.com/news now redirect to MTV's homepage, as reported by Variety. The music channel's news operation, founded in 1996, was shut down in 2023 due to layoffs by parent company Paramount, which cut 25% of jobs across its subsidiaries.

Some earlier articles don't seem to be there even with Wayback Machine. - Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone writer

This follows CMT (formerly Country Music Television), also owned by Paramount, removing its news archives last week. Former MTV news staff took to social media to mourn and criticize the loss of their work and the erasure of music history.