CNN Will Launch a New Media Company With YouTube Star Casey Neistat

Storytelling for a younger generation

YouTube celebrity and tech entrepreneur Casey Neistat is joining the video team at CNN, bringing along with him Beme, the mobile video app he launched last year.

The news network announced Monday that with Neistat, it will debut a new media brand next summer focused on storytelling for a younger audience. In a staff memo, CNN executive vp of editorial Andrew Morse said this is a step to "future-proof" the news organization. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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