World Jun 27, 2026 · 1 min read

‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News

Editor-in-chief has developed network of UK thinkers she believes reject what she regards as overly ‘woke’ consensusIn the six years since she very publicly resigned from the New York Times, and in her tumultuous eight months as editor-in-chief of one of the US’s most prestigious television networks...

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by Michael Savage in London and Jeremy Barr in Washington
‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News

Editor-in-chief has developed network of UK thinkers she believes reject what she regards as overly ‘woke’ consensus

In the six years since she very publicly resigned from the New York Times, and in her tumultuous eight months as editor-in-chief of one of the US’s most prestigious television networks, Bari Weiss has become renowned as a media disruptor and challenger of what she regards as an overly “woke” journalistic consensus.

As Weiss continues to face bitter internal and external opposition to her leadership of CBS News, she has been turning to figures from UK journalism in her attempts to tackle what she sees as US newsroom “groupthink”.

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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Michael Savage in London and Jeremy Barr in Washington.

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