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Why The Free Press Exists, in Three Stories
Why The Free Press Exists, in Three Stories
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This publication began with a question: do Americans still want real journalism? Nearly 450,000 of you are answering: yes.
By Bari Weiss
09.06.23
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Why The Free Press Exists, in Three Stories

I want to tell you three stories. 

Three short stories from these last days of summer that explain better than any pitch deck why The Free Press exists—and why the work that we’re doing matters. 

The first is about Jamie Reed.

Perhaps you’ll remember that name. Six months ago, we published an explosive story by Reed—an insider account about the Washington…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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