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Bari Weiss recruits controversial UK journalists for CBS diversity

6/27/2026

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Bari Weiss is recruiting British journalists to add “opinion/attitude diversity” to CBS News as CBS appoints Trevor Phillips affairs correspondent and hires Josh Boswell from the Daily Mail.
Critics note Phillips’s Labour suspension over Islamophobia and a complaint against BBC presenter Justin Webb for calling trans women males.
Weiss’s UK contacts include Spectator editor Michael Gove, leader Kemi Badenoch and J.K. Rowling’s agent Neil Blair, met at a London party.

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Bari Weiss is recruiting British journalists to add “opinion/attitude diversity” to CBS News as CBS appoints Trevor Phillips affairs correspondent and hires Josh Boswell from the Daily Mail.
Critics note Phillips’s Labour suspension over Islamophobia and a complaint against BBC presenter Justin Webb for calling trans women males.
Weiss’s UK contacts include Spectator editor Michael Gove, leader Kemi Badenoch and J.K. Rowling’s agent Neil Blair, met at a London party.