Bari Weiss and the Media Landscape
America's once diverse news landscape is being remade under the control of a few.
Bari Weiss, the new head of CBS News, is
silencing herselfby taking the helm, a counterintuitive view of the most talked-about media executive of the year.
- Her suitability for the editor-in-chief role has been endlessly scrutinized.
- She earned a full episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.
- Media reporters have closely documented her first steps in the job.
Weiss previously positioned the Free Press as the
authentic voice of scrappy media outsidersbefore leaving the New York Times to launch it.
Author's summary: Bari Weiss's new role at CBS News sparks scrutiny.