By Michael Calderone

With CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, now up for sale, there’s uncertainty inside the network about whether a leadership change could upend the newsroom. That was the case in April 2022 when David Zaslav, fresh off taking control of the newly merged WBD, scrapped the just-launched CNN+, a $300 million streaming subscription venture.

“I was there,” acknowledges Alex MacCallum, CNN Worldwide’s executive vice president of digital products and services. MacCallum left CNN in 2023 for the Washington Post, only to return again the following year under CEO Mark Thompson to help spearhead CNN All Access, a $6.99-a-month subscription tier launching Tuesday that features domestic and international livestreams, access to the network’s vast series and documentary library and video dispatches from anchors and correspondents, along with CNN’s text-based reporting.