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Today, SuChin Pak hosts the wildly successful Lemonada Media podcast Add to Cart alongside comedian, actress and friend, Kulap Vilaysack. From 2001 to 2010, SuChin anchored MTV News on TRL and ten to the hour every hour; hosted Video Music and Movie Award Pre-Shows and her docuseries, My Life (Translated); and narrated dozens of episodes…

In 1998, Shari Scorca was in the final days of her MTV News internship and her senior year at NYU, when she nabbed a pair of tickets to the Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, DC. A freak lightning strike critically injured fans, stopped the performances cold, and pressed Shari into action. “I ended up in…

From 1988 to 2003, Nina Justman was the MTV News’ first line of defense and offense.  As Assignment Editor, she pitched reps for artist access, and took the heat when they didn’t like the story. She talked artists onto the red carpet, and begged them off. “Nobody did a red carpet like we did,” she…

Interviewing Doug Herzog about MTV News is a little like talking with The Pope about the Pieta; it’s just a tiny sliver of his massive scope. At one point in his four decades of broadcasting innovation, Doug oversaw MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, TVLand, Spike and Logo – in addition to previous stints at Fox and…

Longtime MTV News Editorial Director Michael Shore’s penned his first scripts for original VJs JJ Jackson and Martha Quinn in the early eighties, his last for correspondents Sway Calloway and SuChin Pak in the early aughts. This week on “You Hear It First,” Michael regales with stories about the days Kurt Cobain died and Courtney Love crashed…

If you caught a ten-to-the-hour-every-hour MTV News brief with Kurt Loder or John Norris sometime around the turn of Millennium, chances are it was written by Elon Johnson. These days, Elon leads development for Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. But in 1999, Elon was one of a handful of MTV News Writers tasked with scripting…