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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss

Bari Apparent & Politico Animals

The WBD–PSKY post-merger dread hit CNN immediately yesterday, as its journalists and producers pondered life under Bari—but only if her CBS misfires haven’t disqualified her from running the combined operation. Plus, the voracious Mathias Döpfner’s global talent hunt.
Dylan Byers • February 27, 2026
Dylan Byers • February 18, 2026
Anderson of Anarchy
Anderson Cooper
CBS News was abuzz in all the wrong ways again this week as Anderson Cooper announced his departure from ’60 Minutes.’ But the real story at CBS is not Cooper’s martyrdom (Colbert has that covered), it’s what his exit portends for the show’s future and the coming exodus of news talent.
Dylan Byers • February 13, 2026
Bari’s Bootcamp
Bari Weiss
Last week, CBS News offered buyouts to 40 or so employees, some of whom seized the moment to attack Bari Weiss’s “heterodox journalism” and a culture of self-censorship on their way out the door. But legacy media’s challenges run far deeper than mere credibility—the industry is also losing its connection to the audience, itself.
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Dylan Byers • January 28, 2026
Bari the Hatchet
No one said that turning around a legacy news institution in the age of inexorable decline, shattered attention spans, and staff revolts was supposed to be easy. But as Mark Thompson, Will Lewis, and Bari Weiss are proving, you can’t move forward without taking the lead.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • January 21, 2026
Bari’s Prison of Her Own Design
After a month of contentious delays, 60 Minutes finally aired its piece on the notorious El Salvador prison CECOT. The “hostage standoff,” as one person put it, ended in an uneasy truce that could have been reached a month ago—and without exposing the distrust and division at Bari Weiss’s CBS News.
Tony Dokoupil
Dylan Byers • January 14, 2026
Tony and Bari on the Rocks
The sponcon set dressing at ‘Evening News’ provoked predictable outcry at the House of Bari. But are brand partners in TV news just an inevitability at this point?
Ben Smith, Justin Smith Semaphor
Dylan Byers • January 9, 2026
Semafornication
Ben and Justin’s recent fundraise at an 8x trailing revenue multiple, which follows David Ellison’s extravagant purchase of The Free Press, suggests we’ve entered a new era of digital media valuations. Unless we’ve just reentered the old one. Anyway, is Punchbowl next in line?
Tony Dokoupil
Dylan Byers • January 7, 2026
The Tony Accords
Tony Dokoupil’s disastrous debut as anchor of CBS Evening News highlights the uncomfortable truth about Bari Weiss’s tenure: While her politics take center stage, it’s her inexperience that’s her real liability.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • December 26, 2025
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.
sam altman
Matthew Belloni • December 23, 2025
Hollywood’s Villain of the Year Is… Sam Altman
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.