MTV NEWS: UnFiltered was a news

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 series

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 in which viewers sent story ideas to MTV News

MTV News

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 producer

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s about controversial events in the viewers' community that were not being covered by traditional news outlets.

MTV would choose stories and provide video cameras and tapes

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 for the viewers to record and submit stories. MTV then edited the footage and prepared it for broadcast. The episodes were hosted by Alison Stewart

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 and Serena Altschul

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and contained four to six stories per show.