Happy Monday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to Puck’s best new reporting. Here’s what you need to know… and stick around for more on legacy media’s wellness gold rush.

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And now, a little more on the media wellness wars…

MEDIA

Last summer, New York Times Co. C.E.O. Meredith Kopit Levien said the paper would continue investing in soft wellness coverage, largely because sleep hacks and GLP-1 personal essays might “attract people we might not otherwise have a way to get to.” But Levien isn’t the only executive mining the nearly $2 trillion-a-year industry. CNN’s Mark Thompson (who engineered the Times’s digital transformation) is now running a version of the same playbook, hoping that lifestyle content will drive subscriptions to the network’s new premium app, and has even framed health and longevity content as essential to CNN’s future.

But, as Julia reports, the challenge involves reaching the masses: More than half of Gen Z gets its wellness content from TikTok and Instagram influencers. Sure, newsrooms can counter misinformation with authority, and CNN has Sanjay Gupta, but it’s hard to compete with free content that users are already hooked on. One potential path is the creator acqui-hire—validating trusted voices rather than competing with them. But with every outlet invading the space, are there enough credible creators to go around?

Click here to read Julia’s full story.

WASHINGTON

With his unrepentant populism and problematic past, Graham Platner’s polarizing Senate run has tapped into a wellspring of Democratic anger that could upend the party establishment, if the old guard doesn’t strike first.

WALL STREET

A very candid conversation with Lloyd Blankfein, the former Goldman C.E.O., about the tremors in private credit land, this summer’s multitrillion-dollar I.P.O. bonanza, and whether the markets have an Apollo 13 problem.

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ART

It’s still an honor for smaller galleries to show at Art Basel, but global expansion is putting pressure on them to bring exclusive works to the fair without publicizing their packing lists in advance. Now, some galleries are asking themselves whether they can even afford to participate.

FASHION

While fashion pines for the good old days, the recent experiences of J.Crew, Victoria’s Secret, and Saks show they’re probably not worth chasing. Plus, notes on the death of wholesale, the rise of live commerce, and more in this week’s edition of the ReSee.

ART

With a joint exhibit in Venice with his artistic hero, Richard Prince, Arthur Jafa sounds off on the power of scarcity, why we’re still chewing on Duchamp, and his loyalty to Kanye.

MEDIA

The besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to share their deep readings on the latest reverberations of Pelleyghazi before turning their attention to the realities of Pat McAfee economics.

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