founded and co-lead the MTV Documentary Films<\/strong> <\/a>division for five years.<\/p>\n\n\tIn a memo to her staff, Fefferman cited the rise of \u201cYellowstone\u201d Taylor Sheridan as a mega producer and the MTV Documentary Films as highlights of her nine years at Paramount and Viacom.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cTogether we\u2019ve had the privilege of championing some of the company\u2019s most significant milestones \u2013 helping to launch Paramount+, building the Taylor Sheridan universe, welcoming back both TV\u2019s most beloved serial killer and everyone\u2019s favorite late night host, as well as co-founding MTV Documentary Films with the one and only Sheila Nevins \u2013 all while doing good along the way,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\n\tBefore coming to what was then Viacom in 2016, Fefferman worked in the film arena for Radius, Samuel Goldwyn Films and the Weinstein Co. She shepherded successful awards campaigns for documentaries \u201cCitizenfour\u201d and \u201c20 Feet from Stardom\u201d during her time at Radius.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount and Viacom veteran Liza Burnett Fefferman has exited her post as executive VP and head of communications for Paramount Media Networks and Showtime\/MTV Entertainment Studios. Fefferman had been a top lieutenant of Chris McCarthy, co-CEO of Paramount Global, who has also stepped down after a long run. The shuffles come as Paramount Global is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1980220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[354941,309286],"class_list":["post-1980219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-liza-burnett-fefferman","tag-paramount-global"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Liza-Burnett-Fefferman-to-Exit-at-Paramount-Media-NetworksMTV-Studios.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}