David Remnick

What is with this guy and what's going on here?

But you've now spent months thinking about reporting on Barry Weiss for a long piece in The New Yorker.

It's been published this week.

Who is Barry?

What's she all about?

So she got to the Wall Street Journal, where she worked on the opinion side of the paper.

And she knew people like Bret Stephens and all kinds of people.

And eventually she's hired at the New York Times to work in the opinion section under James Bennett.

What happened?

Eventually sort of this would— Progressives, particularly identity politics, she seemed to have a real beef about it.

Is that right?

I'm speaking with The New Yorker's Claire Malone about Barry Weiss and CBS News.

More in a moment.

Barry Weiss resigned.

And as she resigned, she published a letter online

And it was an angry letter.

Describe it a little bit and how now it plays an important role in her developing the free press and now at CBS News.

The resignation becomes almost the turning point in her career.

And first there's a substack, and then there's the free press.

At a certain point, she becomes, in a way, the—