Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is an American journalist. In 2017 Weiss joined the New York Times as a staff editor in The New York Times opinion section.

Early life and education

Weiss was born in Pittsburgh. She is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University. Weiss was a Wall Street Journal Bartley Fellow in 2007. Weiss was a Dorot fellow from 2007-2008 in Jerusalem.[1]

As a student at Columbia, Weiss founded the Columbia Coalition for Sudan (a response to the situation in Darfur) and was a co-founder of Columbians for Academic Freedom, a student group that spoke out against professors who, the group claimed, were intimidating students for expressing opinions with which the professors disagreed during classroom discussions.[2] In addition, the group objected to an arrangement between Columbia and the New York Times under which the Times would gain exclusive access to the report of an ad hoc University committee investigating the allegations made by the students, which was against newspaper policy. The Times ran its exclusive story about the report on March 31, 2005, under the headline, "Columbia Panel Clears Professors on Anti-Semitism."[3] The Times apologized for its lapse in journalistic ethics.[2][4]

Career

Weiss was news and politics editor at Tablet (magazine) from 2011 to 2013. She was associate book review editor at the Wall Street Journal from 2013 until April of 2017, when she moved to the New York Times as an editor in the opinion section.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Bari Weiss". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 Roth, Jordan (26 May 2005). "An academic freedom fighter". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/nyregion/columbia-panel-clears-professors-of-antisemitism.html
  4. ↑ Hentoff, Nat (13 April 2005). "Columbia Whitewashes". Village Voice. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Bari Weiss Joins ‘New York Times’ Opinion Section". Tablet (magazine). 14 April 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Top Journalists Eli Lake and Bari Weiss Honored at Algemeiner Summer Benefit". Algemeiner Journal. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
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