Gideon Yago
Television News Correspondent
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For 7 years, Gideon Yago was the face of news and current events to millions of young adults in America. As a correspondent and producer for MTV News, Yago helmed the network's coverage of elections, wars, national crises, and social trends affecting young people. He has received numerous awards, including an Emmy for his coverage of the 2004 election, a George Foster Peabody Award for his work in MTV's "Fight For Your Rights: Sexual Health" campaign and an Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding documentary coverage of the Iraq war in 2004.
Yago began in television as a cub reporter during the 2000 presidential election covering John McCain and George W. Bush's campaigns. After 2000, he spent a year as a writer for the MTV News desk until the events of 9/11 mandated a radical shift in MTV's programming with an emphasis on news and documentaries. Yago has produced and hosted specials on the war in Afghanistan, the Iraq War (Yago is the only correspondent in the network's history to cover an active conflict in 2003's "Diary of Gideon in Baghdad" and "True Life: I Live in Iraq"), natural disasters like the 2004 Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, drug addiction, bias crime, sexual health, extreme poverty, AIDS in Africa and young veterans in America.
He has interviewed some of the world's foremost leaders face to face, including President George W. Bush, Former President Bill Clinton, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Senator John McCain, Senator John Kerry, Al Gore, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Bill Gates. For 18 months, he was the producer and head writer of the news magazine "The Wrap" on MTV2. His reporting has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin and Vice Magazines, and on NPR's "This American Life."
For the 2008 Presidential elections, Yago has been the host of MTV and MySpace.com's Presidential Dialogues, conducting interviews and hosting town halls on-air and on-line with Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. John Edwards and Ron Paul. He no longer reports full-time, as he has two film scripts in production for Focus Features and Paramount Vantage.
To a generation savvy about media biases and packaging, Yago frames complex issues in an unbiased, informative format. His presentation is a hip look at the presidential race and other newsworthy events around the world.
AT A GLANCE: Gideon Yago was born in Madison, WI, and raised in Queens, NY. He currently lives in New York City.
Interested in booking Gideon Yago to speak at your next event?
Yago began in television as a cub reporter during the 2000 presidential election covering John McCain and George W. Bush's campaigns. After 2000, he spent a year as a writer for the MTV News desk until the events of 9/11 mandated a radical shift in MTV's programming with an emphasis on news and documentaries. Yago has produced and hosted specials on the war in Afghanistan, the Iraq War (Yago is the only correspondent in the network's history to cover an active conflict in 2003's "Diary of Gideon in Baghdad" and "True Life: I Live in Iraq"), natural disasters like the 2004 Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, drug addiction, bias crime, sexual health, extreme poverty, AIDS in Africa and young veterans in America.
He has interviewed some of the world's foremost leaders face to face, including President George W. Bush, Former President Bill Clinton, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Senator John McCain, Senator John Kerry, Al Gore, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Bill Gates. For 18 months, he was the producer and head writer of the news magazine "The Wrap" on MTV2. His reporting has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin and Vice Magazines, and on NPR's "This American Life."
For the 2008 Presidential elections, Yago has been the host of MTV and MySpace.com's Presidential Dialogues, conducting interviews and hosting town halls on-air and on-line with Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. John Edwards and Ron Paul. He no longer reports full-time, as he has two film scripts in production for Focus Features and Paramount Vantage.
To a generation savvy about media biases and packaging, Yago frames complex issues in an unbiased, informative format. His presentation is a hip look at the presidential race and other newsworthy events around the world.
AT A GLANCE: Gideon Yago was born in Madison, WI, and raised in Queens, NY. He currently lives in New York City.
Interested in booking Gideon Yago to speak at your next event?
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