From a New York Times story by John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum headlined “Can CNN’s Hiring Spree Get People to Pay for Streaming News?”:

A couple of months ago, CNN’s forthcoming streaming channel was perceived as little more than a curiosity in the television news business: just another cable dinosaur trying to make the uneasy transition into the digital future.

The plan to start CNN+, which is expected to go live by late March, amounted to a late arrival to the subscription-based streaming party, more than three years after Fox News launched Fox Nation.

Then the hirings began.