Gideon Yago
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Gideon Yago spent seven years as a producer and correspondent for MTV News and CBS News. He has won numerous awards for his work on television including an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the Iraq War, the George Foster Peabody Award for MTV's Fight For Your Rights: Sexual Health campaign, an Emmy Award for his coverage of the 2004 election and an Emmy nomination for his work covering the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

His writing has appeared in Spin and Rolling Stone and on NPR's This American Life. His 2004 article "No War For Heavy Metal" was the basis for Vice Film's 2007 feature documentary Heavy Metal In Baghdad. He is a graduate of Columbia University; he lives in New York and is a screenwriter.

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The IFC Media Project -- Bailing Out the News?

Posted December 16, 2008 | 14:29:43 (EST)

This year both the Financial Industry and the Big Three have gone hat in hand to Congress asking for taxpayer investments in their failed business models. The Wall Street wizards got the largest bailout in American history; the auto industry is still waiting to find out its fate. But regardless...

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Chicago 10

Posted February 28, 2008 | 20:31:00 (EST)

I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder against Boomers. I know every generation takes issue with the one that sired it, but my gripe is as much professional as anything else. For the better part of my 20s, I made my living as a correspondent...

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