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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss

The Weiss Flag

It’s tempting to view Bari Weiss’s first big blunder—pulling a 60 Minutes segment critical of the administration’s deportation efforts—as purely political, which it may have been. But it may have been the product of something more mundane: Bari doesn’t know how to lead a newsroom.
Dylan Byers • December 26, 2025
Matthew Belloni • December 23, 2025
Hollywood’s Villain of the Year Is… Sam Altman
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A year before the OpenAI C.E.O. gets the ‘Social Network’ movie treatment, the slop-ification of entertainment took a major leap in 2025 thanks to a copyright infringement hub called Sora 2 and Altman’s brazen courtship of Disney.
Dylan Byers • December 10, 2025
A Weiss Christmas
Bari Weiss
While The Free Press is flush with holiday spirit, Bari’s job reinventing CBS News is proving more vexing, amid anchor dreams dashed and the age-old challenge of enacting institutional change.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • December 5, 2025
CNN’s Bari Christmas
In the wake of Netflix’s Warner Bros. coup, the folks at CNN are, perhaps naively, looking on the bright side: They may not have to work for Bari Weiss after all. But times in Spinoffville are going to get tough—and fast.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • October 31, 2025
The Bari Method
Bari Weiss walked into CBS News guns ablazin’, booking guests and shooting for the moon with on-air talent, most of whom are locked in multiyear contracts. Will her inexperience in TV be a real hindrance, or is it just what the sleepy Tiffany network needs?
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • October 29, 2025
The Great Weiss Whale
Bari’s takeover of CBS News, and her direct line to David Ellison, is sending a clear message: This is Bari’s CBS now, layoffs and all. The big question is what talent she’ll get to join her. Anderson Cooper will be her first test.
Sarah Longwell
Dylan Byers • October 24, 2025
The Longwell Game
Since the early days of Trump 1.0, The Bulwark has evolved into a hysteria-free, self-sustaining home planet for conservatives-in-exile, where the ethos, according to publisher Sarah Longwell, holds that democracy cannot be saved “from behind a paywall.” Now, she’s contemplating a Free Press-level exit, too.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • October 10, 2025
Bari Poppins
With the week’s short-order wrangling of two former secretaries of State, Bari Weiss is already proving she can get things done at CBS News. But her management of layoffs and resurrecting the ‘Evening News’ will be the next tests in her very new assignment.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • October 8, 2025
Bari, Bari, Quite Contrary
The overwrought media reaction to Weiss’s first days at CBS News would seem to validate the Ellison thesis for putting her in charge. But there’s plenty of cautious optimism inside the newsroom, too. “Having a new force come in isn’t the worst thing,” said one source. “Anyone who is acting like CBS News internally is aghast is not capturing the actual mood.”
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • October 3, 2025
You Only Live Weiss
After David Ellison’s yearlong courtship, Free Press founder Bari Weiss will finally begin leading CBS News on Monday. But can an editor who rose on her center-right-ish criticism of the mainstream media find her way now that she’s once again a part of it?