# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kurt-loder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:31:21.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kurt-loder"
name: "Kurt Loder"
slug: "kurt-loder"
description: "Kurt Loder is an American entertainment critic, author, columnist and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called \"legendary.\" He has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time. He has also made cameos in several films and television series. He is best known for his role at MTV News beginning in the 1980s and for appearing in other MTV-related television specials. He has hosted the SiriusXM radio show True Stories since 2016."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt_Loder_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.389808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/kurt_loder"
    handle:    "kurt_loder"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517064/"
    handle:    "nm0517064"
sources:
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    title: "كورت لودير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kurt Loder"
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    title: "Kurt Loder"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Loder"
    title: "Kurt Loder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Loder"
    title: "Kurt Loder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kurt Loder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "კურტ ლოდერი"
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    title: "Лодер, Курт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump