Media Moves

Media startup Whynow to revive defunct CNN doc brand

January 25, 2023

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Great Big Story, CNN’s defunct short documentary brand, is being revived by Gabriel Jagger’s media start-up Whynow.

“Whynow runs a news and review website dedicated to media and arts and produces television and podcasts for other brands.”

Great Big Story used to produce “three- to 15-minute videos on ‘the untold, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing’” for five years until CNN shuttered it in September 2020.

New videos will be released starting the week of Jan. 30.

Read more here.

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