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When I landed in the bucolic Philadelphia exurbs after 25 years in New York City and left my globetrotting gig at Facebook shortly thereafter, I realized that the relentless pace of my previous life left me feeling anxious and depressed. Then came COVID, and a PTSD diagnosis. I realized pretty quickly that I wasn’t alone.…

How did the 10th of 11 kids go from the Elliot Housing Projects in Chelsea to shooting Eminem’s very first MTV interview?  If you’re a certain Maplewood, New Jersey-based Development Exec, EP and showrunner, the answer may include a consciousness-shifted, college-era Friday-night in front of The Week In Rock. “I was enraptured with the back…

For a generation of viewers, iconic shows like The Week In Rock, The Big Picture, and House of Style are part of the firmament: always there, always on, and always great. But it wasn’t always so. “There was no Internet,” Linda Corradina laughs of her early days at MTV News. “There was no Snapchat. We were speaking…

Ever feel like an underdog? How about a double underdog? Despite interviewing everyone from Stevie Wonder to Billie Joe Armstrong, being a part of the early Aughts MTV News Dot Com Team amidst a remote newsroom of TV producers often made one-time MTV News Senior Writer Corey Moss feel that way. “I came from online and…

As an MTV News correspondent from 2008 to 2012, Kim Stolz did it all: TRL Spring Break, The VMAs, Movie Awards, Choose Or Lose plus dozens of high pressure high profile interviews with big bold faced names. On this week’s You Hear It First podcast, Kim takes us on her unexpected journey from studying foreign…

These days Matt Anderson hangs out with Andy Cohen and The Real Housewives. But in the ’90s and early aughts, Matt parlayed an internship at MTV News to a role as Supervising Producer and eventually Executive Producer of Series & Development.  Growing up in Framingham, Massachusetts, it was The Divas that snapped Matt out of…