Lauren Lazin: Making Television With a Conscience
Lauren Lazin is not your typical television executive. She recognizes the value of her show’s strong ratings and the importance of the MTV News and Specials department (which she formed in 1992) to the network’s public image. Her priorities, however, are more closely aligned with an activist’s or an independent filmmaker’s. Lazin remains committed to producing work that addresses social issues affecting contemporary youth, and she’s interested in working with the film world’s leading documentary filmmakers. As an executive who produces dozens of shows a year, she’s focused first on treating ...
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