NY Times editor rips former colleague Bari Weiss: ‘She’s got a single note, and keeps playing it up over and over again’
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The New York Times’ executive editor bashed former colleague Bari Weiss, who went on to launch independent news outlet “The Free Press,” saying “she’s got a single note, and keeps playing it up over and over again.”
Weiss is also “missing a commitment to deeper reporting [at the Times] and a willingness to kind of look at issues from a 360 perspective that if you were only reading Bari Weiss’ version, you would expect never existed,” Joe Kahn, who oversees all of the NY Times’ global newsroom operations, told Semafor.
Weiss, who worked as an opinion writer and editor at the NY Times from 2017 to 2020, founded The Free Press in January 2021, expanding upon her Substack newsletter titled “Common Sense.”
Despite the criticism, Kahn admitted to Semafor that he still reads The Free Press.
“She’s built a whole media organization around combatting and what she sees is excess of The New York Times and elsewhere,” Kahn added of Weiss, noting that the site still has “valuable reporting.”
“I think there’s some stuff that they’re doing that is worth paying attention to. Do I think she’s right about the [Times]? Not really, no.”
