‘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 opposit...

By Michael Savage in London and Jeremy Barr in Washington