CBS's Bari Weiss pulls out of UCLA lecture

UCLA has canceled an upcoming lecture featuring CBS News main Bari Weiss.

Weiss was scheduled to springiness the yearly Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture connected Feb. 27, astir “The Future of Journalism.” But according to the university, the programme volition not determination guardant arsenic scheduled, aft Weiss’ squad withdrew from the event.

A root acquainted with the UCLA programme said the lecture was canceled owed to information concerns from Weiss, contempt the nationalist assemblage offering to get further information for the event, the root said. The Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture bid honors the precocious writer and is considered the capstone of the university’s Burkle Center for International Relations. Previous speakers see journalists Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper and Bob Woodward.

According to the source, respective employees astatine some the Burkle Center and the International Institute expressed absorption to Weiss speaking connected campus. The assemblage was besides expecting a ample fig of students to protestation the event.

Neither Weiss nor CBS instantly responded to a petition for comment.

Weiss founded the media company, The Free Press, which was purchased successful October by Paramount, CBS’ genitor company. Following the $150 cardinal purchase, Weiss was installed arsenic editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Two months aft taking connected the caller role, Weiss made the wide panned determination to propulsion a “60 Minutes” occurrence that examined the alleged maltreatment of deportees sent from the U.S. to an El Salvador prison. The determination earned Weiss dense disapproval and accusations that the determination was politically motivated.

The canceled UCLA lecture comes astatine a clip of ongoing organizational upheaval astatine CBS, which this week made headlines amid an escalating conflict with its ain late-night speech host, Stephen Colbert, implicit the FCC’s effort to enact stricter enforcement of the equal-time rule.