Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Bari Weiss and the power shift inside CBS News

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"... This story started in 2020, when Weiss published a 1,200-word manifesto accusing The New York Times of creating a hostile work environment where colleagues called her a Nazi in company Slack channels and Twitter mobs determined what could be printed in America's paper of record. ...

Editor-in-Chief of CBS News
Then she built her own media company, sold it to Paramount, and became editor-in-chief of CBS News.

That's a revolution disguised as a resignation. ...

The most damning line: Twitter had become the paper's [The New York Times] "ultimate editor." ...

Weiss published a detailed account of institutional dysfunction at America's most important newspaper and dared them to sue her.

They didn't. The truth has a way of protecting itself.

Weiss started The Free Press. ...

Weiss demonstrated something most journalists only talk about: you can leave, you can build, you can come back with leverage, and you can do it all without apologizing for who you are. ..."

Bari Weiss and the power shift inside CBS News | The Jerusalem Post "'The New York Times' tried to cancel Bari Weiss. Now she's running CBS - comment/From her exit at the New York Times to leading CBS News, Bari Weiss’s rise reflects a deeper fight over power, culture, and who shapes journalism’s future."


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