Bari Weiss
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In 2017, Bari Weiss joined the New York Times as an Opinion writer in an effort to broaden the opinion staffs beliefs and ideas after President Trump’s inauguration. On Tuesday, Bari Weiss resigned from New York Times, denouncing the work environment as “hostile”.
“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people,” she wrote. “Nowadays, standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits. It puts a target on your back.”
In a lengthy resignation letter shared on Weiss’s website, Weiss accused the company of neglecting its principles to “satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.” With this, Weiss criticized the Times for not standing up for her after she was “bullied” by fellow staff members via Twitter.
“They have called me a Nazi and a racist,” she wrote, “I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the Jews again.’ Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in,” she wrote.
Andrew Sullivan, prominent conservative commentator, also announced on Tuesday that he will move on from New York magazine with Bari Weiss.