CNN

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===Website===

CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially known as ''CNN Interactive''), on August 30, 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/|title=CNN Interactive Timeline: May – December, 1995|website=CNN|access-date=September 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924172706/http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/|archive-date=September 24, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The site attracted growing interest over its first decade and is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The widespread growth of blogs, [[social media]] and [[user-generated content]] have influenced the site, and blogs, in particular, have focused CNN's previously scattershot online offerings, most noticeably in the development and launch of [[CNN Pipeline]] in late 2005.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}

In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place among online global news sites in unique users in the U.S., according to Nielsen/NetRatings; with an increase of 11% over the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/category/news/?vnu_content_id=1003975048|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131054901/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003975048|url-status=dead|title=News – Editor & Publisher Magazine|archive-date=January 31, 2010}}</ref>

CNN Pipeline was the name of a paid subscription service, its corresponding website, and a content delivery client that provided streams of live video from up to four sources (or "pipes"), on-demand access to CNN stories and reports, and optional pop-up "news alerts" to computer users. The installable client was available to users of [[personal computer|PCs]] running [[Microsoft Windows]]. There was also a browser-based "web client" that did not require installation. The service was discontinued in July 2007, and was replaced with a free streaming service.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/help/pipeline/message.html|title=Important Message Regarding CNN Pipeline|website=CNN|access-date=September 19, 2020|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026110410/https://edition.cnn.com/help/pipeline/message.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On April 18, 2008, CNN.com was targeted by Chinese hackers in retaliation for the channel's coverage on the [[2008 Tibetan unrest]]. CNN reported that they took preventive measures after news broke of the impending attack.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/18/cnn.websites|title=CNN website targeted|work=CNN|date=April 18, 2008|access-date=October 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015061607/http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/18/cnn.websites/|archive-date=October 15, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thomas |first=Claburn |title=CNN Faces Cyberattack Over Tibet Coverage |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400699 |date=2008 |access-date=March 1, 2022 |work=[[InformationWeek]] |language=en |archive-date=April 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423172902/http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400699 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The company was honored at the 2008 [[Technology & Engineering Emmy Award]]s for development and implementation of an integrated and portable IP-based live, edit and store-and-forward digital news gathering (DNG) system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/08/cnn-awarded-technical-emmy |title=CNN Awarded Technical Emmy|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721045010/http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/08/cnn-awarded-technical-emmy|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> The first use of what would later win CNN this award was in April 2001 when CNN correspondent Lisa Rose Weaver<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uiowa.edu/jmc/faculty/weaver.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629111536/http://www.uiowa.edu/jmc/faculty/weaver.html|url-status=dead|title=Lisa Rose Weaver|archive-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref> covered, and was detained,<ref>{{cite news|title=CNN crew released|url=http://archives.cnn.com:80/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/12/cnn.crew.detained/index.html|access-date=November 14, 2017|work=CNN|date=April 12, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312183129/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/12/cnn.crew.detained/index.html|archive-date=March 12, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> for the release of the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] crew of a damaged electronic surveillance plane after the [[Hainan Island incident]]. The technology consisted of a videophone produced by 7E Communications Ltd of London, UK.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015210439/http://www.privateline.com/war/videophone.html|archive-date=October 15, 2013|url=http://www.privateline.com/war/videophone.html|title=Videophone Technology|publisher=Privateline.com|date=October 9, 2001|access-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> This DNG workflow is used today by the network to receive material worldwide using an [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[MacBook Pro]], various [[wikt:prosumer#Etymology 2|prosumer]] and professional digital cameras, software from Streambox Inc., and [[BGAN]] terminals from [[Hughes Network Systems]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

On October 24, 2009, CNN launched a new version of the CNN.com website; the revamped site included the addition of a new "sign up" option, in which users can create their own username and profile, and a new "CNN Pulse" (beta) feature, along with a new red color theme.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/relaunch|title=Welcome to the New CNN.com – Interactive tour|work=CNN|access-date=February 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227043124/http://www.cnn.com/interactive/relaunch/|archive-date=February 27, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> However, most of the news stories archived on the website were deleted.

===Blogs===

The topical news program ''[[Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics]]'' was the first CNN program to feature a round-up of blogs in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-03-20-media-mix_x.htm|title=It's prime time for blogs on CNN's 'Inside Politics'|date=March 20, 2005|work=[[USA Today]]|last=Johnson|first=Peter|access-date=January 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226050602/http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-03-20-media-mix_x.htm|archive-date=February 26, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Blog coverage was expanded when ''[[Inside Politics]]'' was folded into ''The Situation Room'' (''Inside Politics'' later returned to CNN in 2014, this time hosted by the network's chief national correspondent John King.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}). In 2006, CNN launched CNN Exchange and [[CNN iReport]], initiatives designed to further introduce and centralize the impact of everything from [[blogging]] to [[citizen journalism]] within the CNN brand. CNN iReport which features user-submitted photos and video, has achieved considerable traction, with increasingly professional-looking reports filed by amateur journalists, many still in high school or college. The iReport gained more prominence when observers of the [[Virginia Tech shootings]] sent in first-hand photos of what was going on during the shootings.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=250570b8-2555-4ac0-8fb7-a0431a321e0d&k=80562|title='Citizen journalist' often there first to snap photos|date=April 12, 2008 |newspaper=Regina Leader-Post|last=Cobb |first=Chris|access-date=January 24, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621203445/http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=250570b8-2555-4ac0-8fb7-a0431a321e0d&k=80562|archive-date=June 21, 2008}}</ref>

In April 2010, CNN announced via Twitter that it would launch a food blog called "Eatocracy", which will "cover all news related to food – from recalls to health issues to culture".<ref>{{cite web|author=Brion, Raphael|title=Eatocracy: CNN Gets in the Food Blog Business|url=http://eater.com/archives/2010/04/13/eatocracy-cnn-gets-in-the-food-blog-business.php|publisher=Eater.com|date=April 13, 2010|access-date=April 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923061342/http://eater.com/archives/2010/04/13/eatocracy-cnn-gets-in-the-food-blog-business.php|archive-date=September 23, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> CNN had an [[internet relay chat]] (IRC) network at chat.cnn.com. CNN placed a live chat with [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] on the network in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/community/netanyahu/Net1getready.html|title=How to join the chat and view the Webcast|work=CNN|access-date=October 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911174405/http://www.cnn.com/community/netanyahu/Net1getready.html|archive-date=September 11, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

CNNHealth consists of expert doctors answering viewers' questions online at CNN's "The Chart" blog website. Contributors include [[Sanjay Gupta]] (Chief Medical Correspondent), [[Charles Raison]] (Mental Health Expert), [[Otis Brawley]] (Conditions Expert), Melina Jampolis (Diet and Fitness Expert), Jennifer Shu (Living Well Expert), and [[Elizabeth Cohen]] (Senior Medical Correspondent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/category/expert-qa|title=Expert Q&A|website=thechart.blogs.cnn.com|access-date=April 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414134344/http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/category/expert-qa/|archive-date=April 14, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Other digital offerings===

In early 2008, CNN began maintaining a live streaming broadcast available to cable and [[satellite broadcasting|satellite subscribers]] who receive CNN at home (a precursor to the [[TV Everywhere]] services that would become popularized by cable and satellite providers beginning with Time Warner's incorporation of the medium).<ref name="CNNlivestreaming">{{Cite web|title=Live Video from CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823034008/http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html|archive-date=August 23, 2007|access-date=August 2, 2007|website=CNN}}</ref> CNN International is broadcast live, as part of the [[RealNetworks]] SuperPass subscription service outside the U.S. CNN also offers several [[RSS|RSS feeds]] and [[podcast]]s.

CNN also has multiple channels in the popular video-sharing site [[YouTube]], but those videos can only be viewed in the United States, a source of criticism among YouTube users worldwide.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} In 2014, CNN launched a radio version of their television programming on [[TuneIn]] Radio.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Nicole|url=https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/tunein-redesign-audio-network/|title=TuneIn tries reinventing itself as a social network for audio|publisher=Engadget.com|date=May 7, 2014|access-date=February 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205044538/http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/tunein-redesign-audio-network/|archive-date=February 5, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The network also hosts CNN-10, a daily 10-minute video show visible at the CNN website or YouTube. It replaced the long-running show CNN Student News which had been aired since 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/22/studentnews/sn-what-is-student-news/index.html|title=What is CNN 10?|date=April 7, 2020|work=CNN|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411034007/https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/22/studentnews/sn-what-is-student-news/index.html|archive-date=April 11, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> It is aimed at a global audience of students, teachers, and adults, and was hosted by Carl Azuz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://civiceducator.org/teaching-current-events-cnn10/|title=Five Reasons CNN 10 Videos Are Great Tools for Teaching Current Events|work=The Civic Educator|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629070317/http://civiceducator.org/teaching-current-events-cnn10/|archive-date=June 29, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> In fall of 2022, Carl Azuz was replaced by [[Coy Wire]] as the host of CNN 10,<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN Profiles - Coy Wire - CNN Sports Anchor & Correspondent |url=https://www.cnn.com/profiles/coy-wire-profile |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=CNN |archive-date=October 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011201158/https://www.cnn.com/profiles/coy-wire-profile |url-status=live }}</ref> after leaving CNN due to a "personal decision" according to a CNN spokesperson in a newsletter published on September 18, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weekman |first=Kelsey |title=The Beloved Host Of CNN's Student Show Left And Everyone Freaked Out |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/carl-azuz-cnn-10-news-anchor-tiktok |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=[[BuzzFeed News]] |date=October 5, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=October 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011201200/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/carl-azuz-cnn-10-news-anchor-tiktok |url-status=live }}</ref>

On March 7, 2017, CNN announced the official launch of its virtual reality unit named CNNVR. It will produce 360 videos to its [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]] apps within CNN Digital.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/cnn-360-vr-cnnvr-1202003703|title=CNN Adds 360 Video to Mobile Apps, Website as Part of VR Push|magazine=Variety|first=Janko|last=Roettgers|date=March 7, 2017|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307215016/http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/cnn-360-vr-cnnvr-1202003703/|archive-date=March 7, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/07/cnn-virtual-reality-unit-cnnvr|title=CNN launches a virtual reality news unit|work=[[TechCrunch]]|author=engadget|date=March 7, 2017|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307230720/https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/07/cnn-virtual-reality-unit-cnnvr/|archive-date=March 7, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It is planning to cover major news events with the online, and digital news team in [[New York City]], [[Atlanta]], [[London]], [[Hong Kong]], [[San Francisco]], [[Dubai]], [[Johannesburg]], [[Tokyo]], and [[Beijing]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CNN Digital Debuts its Virtual Reality Unit: CNNVR|url=http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2017/03/07/cnn-digital-vr-virtual-reality-cnnvr/|website=CNN Pressroom|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308160902/http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2017/03/07/cnn-digital-vr-virtual-reality-cnnvr/|archive-date=March 8, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:CNN NewSource.jpg|thumb|right|CNN Newsource offices at the CNN Center in Atlanta]]
CNN Newsource is a [[subscription]]-based affiliation [[video]] service that provides CNN [[Content (media)|content]] to [[Network affiliate|television station affiliates]] with CNN, including [[terrestrial television|terrestrial]] stations and international stations. Newsource allows affiliates to download videos from CNN, as well as from other affiliates who upload their video to Newsource.

CNN also maintains a [[wire service]] known as CNN Wire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/intlsyndication/wire.html|title=CNN Syndication Services|website=CNN|access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414154825/http://www.cnn.com/intlsyndication/wire.html|archive-date=April 14, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

CNN's digital storefront, which sells branded merchandise, household goods, and software, is operated by [[StackCommerce]] via partnership.

In 2021, CNN Digital had an average of 144 million unique visitors in the United States according to [[Comscore]], making it the most viewed digital news outlet, ahead of ''The New York Times'', NBC News, Fox News, ''The Washington Post''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN Digital Dominates All Competitors; #1 Digital News Outlet Of 2021 |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2022/01/26/cnn-digital-ratings-top-competitors-largest-digital-news-outlet-2021/ |access-date=2022-09-05 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905195225/https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2022/01/26/cnn-digital-ratings-top-competitors-largest-digital-news-outlet-2021/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Beme===
{{main|Beme (company)}}

On November 28, 2016, CNN announced the acquisition of [[Beme (company)|Beme]] for a reported $25 million.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/cnn-buys-casey-neistats-video-app-beme-1480353128|title=CNN Buys Casey Neistat's Video App Beme|last=Perlberg|first=Steven|date=November 28, 2016|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|issn=0099-9660|access-date=December 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203235143/http://www.wsj.com/articles/cnn-buys-casey-neistats-video-app-beme-1480353128|archive-date=December 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 29, 2016, Matt Hackett, co-founder of Beme, announced via an email to its users that the [[Beme (app)|Beme app]] would be shutting down on January 31, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/@mhkt/beme-is-shutting-down-but-our-work-is-just-starting-3d4636b37c32|title=Beme is Shutting Down, But Our Work Is Just Starting|last=Hackett|first=Matt|date=November 28, 2016|website=Medium|access-date=December 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203060328/https://medium.com/@mhkt/beme-is-shutting-down-but-our-work-is-just-starting-3d4636b37c32|archive-date=December 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Since the shutdown of the app, it was announced that CNN intended to use the current talent behind Beme to work on a separate start-up endeavor. Beme's current team will retain full creative control of the new project, which was slated to be released in the summer of 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=i sold my company to CNN|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkrmR3dr8ow|access-date=February 3, 2017|date=November 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204164715/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkrmR3dr8ow|archive-date=February 4, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Beme have also brought on other internet stars such as the host of [[Vsauce]] 3, Jake Roper, as head of production, who features prominently in Beme co-founder [[Casey Neistat]]'s vlogs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIwqboJLrpY&t|title=CNN update|date=July 5, 2017|website=[[YouTube]]|publisher=Casey Neistat|access-date=July 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407121209/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIwqboJLrpY&t|archive-date=April 7, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Beme (company)|Beme News]] has since begun uploading news related video on [[YouTube]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0YIply-je0EhSWLgpftVw/videos|title=Beme News|website=[[YouTube]]|language=en|access-date=December 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126231227/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0YIply-je0EhSWLgpftVw/videos|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Films===
{{main|CNN Films}}

In October 2012, CNN formed a film division called [[CNN Films]] to distribute and produce made-for-TV and feature [[documentary film|documentaries]]. Its first acquisition was a documentary entitled ''Girl Rising'', a documentary narrated by [[Meryl Streep]] that focused on the struggles of girls' education.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lieberman|first=David|date=October 8, 2012|title=CNN Creates Unit To Acquire Documentary Films For Theaters And TV|url=https://deadline.com/2012/10/cnn-documentary-films-349476/|access-date=March 1, 2022|website=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|language=en-US|archive-date=March 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301195357/https://deadline.com/2012/10/cnn-documentary-films-349476/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Radio===

In July 2014, [[Cumulus Media]] announced that it would end its partnership with [[ABC News Radio]], and enter into a new partnership with CNN to syndicate national and international news content for its stations through [[Westwood One (current)|Westwood One]] beginning in 2015, including access to a wire service, and digital content for its station websites. [[Westwood One News|This service]] is unbranded, allowing individual stations to integrate the content with their news brands.<ref name="abc-cnncumulus">{{cite web|title=Cumulus taps CNN for Westwood One news service|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/07/31/cumulus-taps-cnn-for-westwood-one-news-service.html|website=Atlanta Business Chronicle|access-date=December 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216135053/http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/07/31/cumulus-taps-cnn-for-westwood-one-news-service.html|archive-date=December 16, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of February 2019, the audio simulcast of CNN is distributed on [[Entercom]]'s [[Radio.com]] website and app.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Radio.com Adds CNN & Bloomberg Live Audio And Podcasts|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/174347/radio-com-adds-cnn-bloomberg-live-audio-and-podcasts/|access-date=March 1, 2022|website=RadioInsight|language=en-US|archive-date=June 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602061032/https://radioinsight.com/headlines/174347/radio-com-adds-cnn-bloomberg-live-audio-and-podcasts/|url-status=live}}</ref>