MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount Content Purge

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor MTV News lives! Well, sort of. In the days after Paramount Global disabled mtvnews.com and mtv.com/news — removing a trove of hundreds of thousands of articles about music and pop culture from the internet — the not-for-profit Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

You can search the MTV News archive on the organization’s Wayback Machine at this link. Paramount shut down the MTV News division as part of a larger round of layoffs in May 2023.

The Internet Archive also hosts collections of snapshots of the MTV News site from 2022, 2023 and 2024. Of course, the images from May 2023 onward are static, given that MTV News ceased publishing new content then.

Pictured above is what the site looked like last month until Paramount pulled the plug. The Wayback Machine’s archive of MTV News, which appears to go back to at least 1997, is not the full complement of what was published over the span of more than two decades.