The Free Press Aims to Revitalize Journalism with Core Ideals
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The Free Press Aims to Revitalize Journalism with Core Ideals
- The Free Press, founded by Bari Weiss in 2021, emphasizes honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence in its reporting and commentary to challenge institutionally driven narratives.
- The platform originated as a Substack newsletter called "Common Sense" in 2021 before rebranding to The Free Press in December 2022, expanding its operations.
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The Free Press is a digital media company established by journalist Bari Weiss, aiming to uphold what it describes as the bedrock ideals of American journalism: honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence. The company began as a Substack newsletter titled “Common Sense” in January 2021, following Weiss’s resignation from The New York Times in 2020, where she cited ideological pressures hindering independent reporting.
In December 2022, the publication rebranded as The Free Press, transitioning from a solo newsletter to a broader digital media company with an expanded newsroom and diversified content, including investigative reporting and multimedia formats. The Free Press seeks to provide investigative stories and commentary that confront the world as it is, challenging institutionally driven narratives and focusing on topics it believes are often ignored or misconstrued by mainstream media.
The platform is supported by subscriptions and aims to engage readers as independent thinkers. In October 2025, The Free Press was acquired by Paramount Skydance for $150 million, and Bari Weiss was appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News. This acquisition has