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MTV News Revived by Internet Archive After Paramount's Removal

Over 460,000 web pages from the iconic music news site are now accessible on the Wayback Machine.

  • Paramount Global recently removed MTV News content as part of a broader website strategy.
  • The Internet Archive has created a searchable collection of MTV News articles dating back to 1997.
  • Michael Alex, former head of MTV News' digital group, praised the archive as 'incomplete but impressive.'
  • The collection preserves the text of articles, though many images did not survive the archiving process.
  • The Internet Archive continues to face legal challenges regarding its preservation efforts.
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