CNN is following The New York Times into wellness coverage as a subscription play — but the audience already belongs to creators.
Legacy media in the U.S. has settled on wellness as its next great subscription engine. As The New York Times pulls in new readers with lifestyle fare — sleep, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, peptides — CNN is racing to run the same play behind its new premium app. A wellness market worth roughly $2 trillion a year, combined with the pressure to replace shrinking advertising with subscriptions, has made the category one no newsroom can afford to ignore. This account draws on reporting by Julia Alexander for Puck.
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