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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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Inshorts Group chief Deepit Purkayastha joins IAB video council for Southeast Asia and India
The co-founder and chief executive of the short-form content platform has been inducted into the IAB SEA+India Video Council, giving India a stronger voice in shaping digital video frameworks
NOIDA: India has long been the world’s most chaotic, multilingual and mobile-first digital market. Now, one of its most prominent short-video executives is getting a seat at the table where the rules are written.
Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder and chief executive of Inshorts Group, has been selected as a member of the IAB SEA+India Video Council for 2026. Run by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the council brings together senior leaders from Southeast Asia and India to shape standards, best practices and measurement frameworks for the fast-evolving video and digital advertising ecosystem.
The timing is pointed. According to the IAMAI-Kantar Internet in India Report 2025, over 588 million Indians are now consuming short-video content, with growth increasingly driven by rural and non-metro audiences. India’s active internet user base has crossed 950 million, with 57 per cent of users now coming from rural markets. Yet the frameworks that govern how video consumption is measured and monetised were largely designed for single-language, Western markets and have struggled to keep pace with the scale, diversity and complexity of India’s digital landscape.
Purkayastha is no stranger to these debates. He already serves on the AI Council at Marketing and Media Alliance India and as co-chair of the Digital Entertainment Committee at the Internet and Mobile Association of India. His induction into the IAB SEA+India Video Council extends that influence into the global video standards arena.
Inshorts Group sits squarely at the intersection of these forces. Its flagship product, Inshorts, India’s highest-rated short news app, reaches 12 million active users with 60-word news summaries. Its sister platform, Public App, reaches 80 million monthly active users across more than 700 districts and 12 languages, serving communities that most global platforms barely register.
Purkayastha said the opportunity was about building something more representative. “India today sits at the centre of the global video ecosystem, but the frameworks that define how value is created and measured have not always kept pace with the realities of our market,” he said. “Being part of the IAB SEA+India Video Council is an opportunity to contribute to a more representative and future-ready approach, one that accounts for diversity in language, context, and user intent.”
As a council member, Purkayastha will contribute to shaping regional standards across video advertising, measurement and platform governance, with a focus on frameworks that are native to India’s multilingual, mobile-first ecosystem rather than imported from global benchmarks designed elsewhere.
For years, India has been content to play by rules written for other markets. Purkayastha’s induction is a signal that it is done waiting to be consulted and ready to start writing them.
