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Former MTV News correspondent Gideon Yago says the Viacom mogul’s obits omit that he built an empire out of cheap labor and unprotected I.P.
May 11, 2023 · Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, SuChin Pak, Alison Stewart and Gideon Yago remember working at the now shuttered MTV News.
During six weeks on the campaign trail, he spent only 72 hours in the city, barely enough time to see his girlfriend of two years, an English major at New York University. He lives on the Lower...
True Life: Created by Aaron Saidman. With SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Michael Granatta, Domaine Javier. MTV follows three unique persons in their everyday situations, and documents the problems and goals they face.
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Yago was born in Madison, Wisconsin to a German-born, Roman Catholic mother and a Jewish father who met in Israel. His mother was a psychoanalyst and his father an economist. He grew up in Queens, New York and graduated from the Kew-Forest School where he wrote and published a zine called Corpuscle. He graduated from Columbia University and began w...
Journalism
Initially, Yago worked primarily as a writer for the MTV News department. From 2002-2003, Yago wrote and produced the MTV News magazine The Wrap on MTV2. As his time at MTV progressed, Yago switched gears and began focusing on politics, rather than music, on MTV News. Yago has worked on award-winning documentaries on sexual health, the 9/11 attacks, fighting in Afghanistan, hate crimes, the 2000 and 2004 elections, and the war in Iraq. These awards include: 2003 Peabody Award Winner for his p...
Writer
In 2006 Focus Features acquired his script "Underdog" about veterans returning home from war. It has no set production or release date. Yago also completed a short series with IFC. The IFC Media Projectis "a user's guide to how the news gets made" promising to expose the tactics used by media giants to "sell" the news. Yago returned as host of the second season of The IFC Media Project, in May 2009. Yago co-wrote the third episode of The Newsroom with Aaron Sorkin, entitled "The 112th Congres...
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