In 2007, Weiss worked for
Haaretz and
The Forward. over her book
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, which Weiss alleged caricatured Israeli archaeologists. From 2011 to 2013, Weiss was senior news and politics editor at American Jewish conservative magazine
Tablet.
2013–2017: The Wall Street Journal Weiss was an op-ed and book review editor at
The Wall Street Journal from 2013 until April 2017. She left following the departure of deputy editorial page editor
Bret Stephens, for whom she had worked, and joined him at
The New York Times.
2017–2020: The New York Times In 2017, as part of an effort by
The New York Times to broaden the ideological range of its opinion staff after the inauguration of President
Donald Trump, opinion editor
James Bennet hired Weiss as an
op-ed staff editor and writer about culture and politics. Through her first year at the paper, she wrote opinion pieces advocating for the blending of cultural influences, something derided by what she termed the "strident left" as
cultural appropriation. She criticized the organizers of the
2017 Women's March protesting the
inauguration of President Trump for their "chilling ideas and associations", singling out several she believed to have made
antisemitic or
anti-Zionist statements in the past. Her article about the
Chicago Dyke March, asserting that
intersectionality is a "caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history", was condemned by playwright
Eve Ensler for misunderstanding the work of intersectional politics. Others condemned the article as fundamentally misunderstanding intersectionality. In January 2018,
Babe.net published an anonymous woman's allegation that comedian and actor
Aziz Ansari's behavior during a date rose to the level of sexual assault. Weiss published a piece titled "Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader", one of many responses to this incident in the context of the #MeToo movement. In March 2018, Weiss published the column "We're All Fascists Now", in which she argued that members of the left wing were increasingly intolerant of alternate views, presenting varied examples. Shortly after publication, the piece was corrected and an editorial note was placed on it because one of the examples Weiss used was a fake
antifa Twitter account. This account had been identified as fake in multiple media outlets in 2017 as a right-wing masquerade aimed at discrediting the left-wing protest movement. In May 2018, Weiss published "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web". This piece profiled a collection of thinkers who shared an unorthodox approach to their fields and the media landscape. Weiss collectively called them the
Intellectual Dark Web, borrowing the term from
Thiel Capital managing director
Eric Weinstein. Outlets commented on and critiqued the label through 2020. On June 7, 2020, the
Times editorial page editor,
James Bennet, resigned after more than 1,000 staffers signed a letter protesting his publication of an op-ed by U.S. Senator
Tom Cotton saying that since "rioters have plunged many American cities into anarchy", soldiers should be sent as backup for the police to end the violence. This characterization was disputed by other journalists and opinion writers at the
Times;
Taylor Lorenz, a technology reporter who covers internet culture, called it a "willful misrepresentation" that ignored the numerous older staffers who had spoken out, while Jamal Jordan, the
Times's digital storytelling editor, criticized Weiss for not listening to her black colleagues and dismissing their concerns as a "woke civil war". She accused her former employer of "unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and
constructive discharge" and "caving to the whims of critics on Twitter". Her resignation from the
Times drew considerable news coverage. Her letter was praised by U.S. Senators
Ted Cruz,
Marco Rubio, and
Kelly Loeffler;
Donald Trump Jr.; political commentator
Ben Shapiro; former Democratic presidential candidates
Andrew Yang and
Marianne Williamson; and political commentator
Bill Maher. Conversely, the letter attracted substantial criticism from left-leaning media outlets. Alex Shephard criticized Weiss's letter in
The New Republic, calling Weiss's resignation a form of "self-cancellation" and part of a pattern in her work of "taking thin, anecdotal evidence and framing it in grandiose, culture-war terms". Writing in
The Guardian,
Moira Donegan called Weiss a "professional rightwing attention seeker" and disputed her claim that social media's influence had led to a hostile media environment for conservatives. The
Financial Times called Weiss a "self-styled free speech martyr". In 2021, Weiss compared her professional travails to those of
Galileo Galilei, who was threatened with being burned at the stake unless he renounced his scientific views. Beginning in 2020, Weiss occasionally wrote articles for the German newspaper
Die Welt.
2021–present: The Free Press and CBS News In January 2021, Weiss launched a
Substack newsletter titled
Common Sense. The name was later changed to
The Free Press, which became a media company of the same name. In February, she interviewed
Gina Carano about her firing from
The Mandalorian. On November 8, 2021,
Pano Kanelos, formerly the president of
St. John's College, announced the creation of the
University of Austin in Weiss's newsletter. In 2023, Weiss publicly criticized and singled out Palestinian professor and poet
Refaat Alareer for an internet post in which he ridiculed a debunked claim that a baby was burned in an oven in the
October 7 attacks. Alareer subsequently received rape and
death threats from some of Weiss's online followers. In October 2025,
Paramount Skydance bought
The Free Press for $150 million and installed Weiss, who had no prior experience in
broadcast journalism, as
editor-in-chief of
CBS News. She reports to
David Ellison, the head of Paramount Skydance. This announcement was interpreted by critics as a sign that CBS was shifting rightward in response to the Trump era, and was praised by Trump himself. This was shortly followed by layoffs, which, one former CBS producer alleged, primarily targeted racial minorities while white employees were simply shifted to other jobs. The total reported losses were around 100 employees, including eight on-air hosts, all of them women. On December 10, 2025, Weiss appointed
CBS Mornings co-host
Tony Dokoupil as the
CBS Evening News anchor effective January 5, 2026. On the night of Dokoupil's first broadcast, Weiss re-wrote the anchor's script to cast Donald Trump’s Venezuela military operation in a better light. The re-write caused the text to appear in the teleprompter twice and Dokoupil stumbled over his words. “First day, big problems here,” he said on the air. Later that month, Weiss
spiked a
60 Minutes segment titled "
Inside CECOT", an investigation by journalist
Sharyn Alfonsi into the Salvadoran
Terrorism Confinement Center. At a meeting the next day with
60 Minutes staff, Alfonsi said Weiss had not contacted her before spiking the story, and journalist
Scott Pelley charged that Weiss had not attended any of five internal screenings of the story during the final stages of editing. The full episode was inadvertently published online in Canada on a streaming platform owned by
Global TV, which held Canadian streaming rights to
60 Minutes, and rapidly spread online. It eventually aired largely unchanged, with minor additional context, on January 18, 2026. ==Political views==