Who Is CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’ Wife? All About Journalist Nellie Bowles
- - Who Is CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’ Wife? All About Journalist Nellie Bowles
Christopher RudolphJanuary 30, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Nellie Bowles and Bari Weiss
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CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss met Nellie Bowles when they both worked at The New York Times
They married in 2020 in California
Weiss and Bowles share a daughter and son
Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles have been married since 2020.
The CBS News editor-in-chief first met her future partner when they both worked at The New York Times. Weiss and Bowles joined the publication in 2017, with the former as an opinions staff editor and the latter as a tech reporter. They eventually discussed a potential professional collaboration and began dating in the months that followed.
In 2020, Weiss resigned from The New York Times and the next year, she and Bowles co-founded the Substack newsletter Common Sense, which was later named The Free Press. It then evolved into the media company The Free Press and was acquired by Paramount in October 2025.
Shortly after, CBS News, which is under Paramount, named Weiss as its new editor-in-chief. In the time since, Weiss' decisions have come into question, including pulling a segment of 60 Minutes that was critical of the Trump administration in December 2025.
Away from the newsroom, Weiss and Bowles have welcomed two children.
So, who is Bari Weiss' wife? Here's everything to know about Nellie Bowles.
She is from San Francisco, where she began her journalism career
Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles
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Bowles grew up in San Francisco, and she started her journalism career as an intern at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she wrote for the style and business sections, according to a June 2017 press release from The New York Times.
She has been critical of San Francisco, writing about the city in The Atlantic in June 2022 and in her 2024 book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.
"To me, in part because I grew up here, but in part because I just I really believe that San Francisco is such an important story and is such an important story to understand America," Bowles said during a May 2024 interview with the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California.
She continued, "It has all the money, it has all the smarts ... It has all the beauty. It's a beautiful city. It has everything. So when things fall apart or when things get screwed up, you can't point a finger and blame it at anything but ourselves ... you have to say, 'Why? Why is this not working?' "
According to The Jewish News of Northern California, Bowles is a sixth-generation San Franciscan.
She was a tech reporter for The New York Times
Bowles graduated from Columbia University in 2010, according to her LinkedIn.
She went on work several jobs in journalism, including at The Guardian and HBO, the latter for which she was an on-air correspondent for Vice News Tonight, per The New York Times' press release.
Bowles was later named a San Francisco-based correspondent at The New York Times in 2017, covering tech and digital culture.
During her tenure at The New York Times, Bowles was part of a team who won the the Gerald Loeb Award in Investigations and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award, according to her author bio.
She met Weiss in 2018 while working together
Bari Weiss in November 2024
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Weiss and Bowles first met when they got coffee together in the cafeteria at The New York Times.
In an August 2023 interview with the American Jewish University, they recalled their first meeting, which occurred after Weiss pitched Bowles about a story she thought she should cover.
Bowles said she was drawn to Weiss from the beginning, but it took longer for Weiss to reciprocate those feelings.
"I thought she was intriguing and interesting, but was not exactly ... the profile of the kind of person that I was looking for that I thought I would end up with," Weiss said.
Bowles replied, "It took six months of hard work on my end."
They married in 2020
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Weiss and Bowles wed in 2020 "at a strip mall" in Encino, Calif., according to The New Yorker.
"We got married in a strip mall in Encino. It was a hilarious situation," Weiss said during a December 2021 appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show. "We basically decided let's not tell anyone because we want to have a huge party after COVID, and we don't want to give anyone an excuse not to come."
"But it's been a year, COVID's still going on, and it became too difficult not to say, 'She's my wife!' " she continued.
After she began dating Weiss, Bowles started converting to Judaism, a journey she chronicled in her Substack, Chosen By Choice, per The Jewish News of Northern California.
She and Weiss have two children
Weiss and Bowles have become parents since getting married.
Per an April 2024 X post, they welcomed a daughter in 2022, and according to The Christian Science Monitor, a son, in 2024.
They co-founded the media company The Free Press in 2021
Bari Weiss in November 2024
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Weiss and Bowles co-founded the media company, The Free Press, in 2021. Starting off as a Substack newsletter called Common Sense, it was rebranded as The Free Press in 2022.
The Free Press has over 1.5 million subscribers, and in October 2025, Paramount announced it had acquired the company.
"This is a great moment for The Free Press. This partnership allows our ethos of fearless, independent journalism to reach an enormous, diverse, and influential audience," Weiss said in a statement. "We honor the extraordinary legacy of CBS News by committing ourselves to a singular mission: building the most trusted news organization of the 21st Century."
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