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CNN.com launches entertainment section
MUMBAI: US news broadcaster CNN‘s site CNN.com has unveilled its new entertainment section.
This will showcase the latest in entertainment headlines, celebrity photos, interviews with stars, and live video from events, as well as beat coverage of TV, movies and music.
CNN.com‘s Entertainment editor Katie Caperton says, “Entertainment is one of those topics that a large cross-section of our audience loves to follow, and we want to give them up-to-the-minute reporting about all of their favorite celebrities.
“In addition to CNN‘s reporting, we hear a lot of buzz from our CNN.com users, especially our iReporters‘ burning questions about movies, the stars and the latest headlines. CNN is in a unique position to take those questions directly to celebrities on the red carpet, giving our audience a voice in our reporting.”
Led by former OK! Magazine editor Katie Caperton, the site‘s new entertainment section draws on the strength of CNN‘s global entertainment reporting resources including CNN.com‘s entertainment reporting team, the CNN Entertainment Unit, HLN‘s daily entertainment news show Showbiz Tonight, CNN‘s Los Angeles and New York bureaus and journalists in the field. CNN.com also has partnered with InStyle, People and EW magazines to incorporate more of their sweeping coverage right within the site‘s Entertainment Section.
Utilising a premium design and features incorporating user-generated content and social media activity, the section offers entertainment stories, play-in-page video and photos as well as direct access to its newly stylised blog, The Marquee Blog. Some of the new features include:
• Breaking stories and video spotlighted, along with user comments from CNN.com and Facebook.
• “Click,” featuring the latest paparazzi photos, updated throughout the day and archived in a weekly gallery
• “Quote Board,” highlighting the week‘s most-controversial and interesting things said about and by celebrities
• “Photos & Videos,” showcasing the best multimedia from special industry events like the Cannes Film Festival
• “iReport All Access,” powered by CNN‘s user-generated community, iReport, users can submit questions for celebrity interviews, as well as watch celebrities answer select questions from iReporters
The entertainment section will also introduce a new feature called Trending Now. The story selection here will be user-driven and constantly updated according to the related user activity in CNN.com‘s comments, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
Content from the section is also available through CNN‘s mobile website, as well as via the CNN App for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Twitter users also can keep up with CNN‘s latest entertainment reporting on The Marquee Blog by following @CNNshowbiz.
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With 57 per cent single new users, Ashley Madison rebrands as discreet dating platform
Platform says majority of new members now identify as single
INDIA: Ashley Madison is shedding the “married-dating” label that defined it for two decades, repositioning itself as a platform for discreet dating in what it calls the post-social media age.
The rebrand, unveiled in India on 27 February, 2026, marks a structural shift in business model and identity. Once synonymous with married dating, the company now describes itself as the “premier destination for discreet dating” under a new tagline: Where Desire Meets Discretion.
The pivot is data-driven. Internal figures show that 57 per cent of global sign-ups between 1 January and 31 December, 2025 identified as single: a notable departure from the platform’s married core. The company argues that its community has already evolved beyond its original positioning.
“In an age where our lives have been constantly put on public display, privacy has become the new luxury,” said Ashley Madison chief strategy officer Paul Keable. He framed the platform’s offering as “ethical discretion” for singles, separated, divorced and non-monogamous users seeking private connections.
The shift also taps into wider digital fatigue. A global survey conducted by YouGov for Ashley Madison, covering 13,071 adults across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US, found mounting discomfort with hyper-public online lives.
Among dating app users, 30 per cent cited constant swiping and messaging as a source of fatigue, while 24 per cent pointed to pressure to curate public-facing profiles and early personal disclosure. Some 27 per cent said fears of screenshots or information being shared contributed to exhaustion; an equal share cited unwanted attention.
The retreat from oversharing appears broader. According to the survey, 46 per cent of adults actively try to keep most aspects of their life private online. Only 8 per cent feel comfortable sharing most aspects publicly, while 35 per cent say they are becoming more selective about what they disclose.
Ashley Madison is betting that this cultural recalibration towards controlled visibility can be monetised. By doubling down on privacy infrastructure and reframing itself around discretion rather than infidelity, the company is attempting to convert reputational baggage into a premium proposition.
