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  • Yet Another Reason I’m Proud To Work Here

    People say a lot of things about this place.  Here’s something you might not know about the real people who work here. MTV partnered with Catchafire, an org that matches non-profits with executives who can help them.  Led by MTV President, Stephen Friedman, along with SVP of Pro Social and Public Affairs, Jason Rzepka, MTV worked with CEO (Center…

  • “We Worship At The Altar Of Our Audience”

    That’s something that MTV President Stephen Friedman (who brought me to MTV almost 8 years ago) always says.  It means this: If our audiences don’t love what we do, they’ll go away.  And if they go away, we’ll be gone too.  We all have the same boss.  In the case of MTV, that’s abuot 80 million…

  • DISconnected Premieres On MTV Tomorrow Night

    When the police showed up, they found more than a hundred teenagers logged on to the live stream on Abraham Biggs’ computer screen, all watching Abraham lying on his bed.  Dead. That was November 19, 2008; the 19-year-old Biggs had committed suicide while broadcasting on his Justin.tv channel.  Many of those watching had taunted and…