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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

Bari Weiss reaching out her right hand towards the audience while speaking into a microphone
Bari Weiss has been facing bitter internal and external opposition to her leadership of CBC News. Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press

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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