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Bari Weiss joins Peter Thiel at 2026 Axel Springer Awards

7/20/2026

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Bari Weiss, CBS News head, will speak at the 2026 Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin alongside Peter Thiel in September 2026.
Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer CEO, invited Weiss after a failed recruitment attempt and after meeting White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Axel Springer, owner of Politico and Business Insider, has bought the UK’s The Telegraph, is weighing a purchase of The Dispatch, and has not commented on Weiss’s participation.

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Bari Weiss, CBS News head, will speak at the 2026 Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin alongside Peter Thiel in September 2026.
Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer CEO, invited Weiss after a failed recruitment attempt and after meeting White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Axel Springer, owner of Politico and Business Insider, has bought the UK’s The Telegraph, is weighing a purchase of The Dispatch, and has not commented on Weiss’s participation.