Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder is an American journalist, film critic and television personality known for his long association with MTV News. Born in 1945, he grew up partly in Peru and later in Ocean City, New Jersey. His only formal journalism training came through an Army course, and while in Europe he reported for an Army publication. He joined Rolling Stone in 1979 and spent nine years there as an editor, critic and feature writer, also co-writing Tina Turner's autobiography I, Tina (1986) and publishing Bat Chain Puller in 1990. From the late 1980s he hosted and wrote The Week in Rock for MTV, then served as an anchor, interviewer and correspondent; he later reviewed movies for MTV.com. In 2016 he started presenting the SiriusXM program True Stories. His acting credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Belly (1998), Pups (1999) and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000).