"Two journalists who are part of Bari Weiss's expanding journalistic empire were on-site to cover now-Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's election night watch party Tuesday in Brooklyn. Ed O'Keefe, senior White House reporter for CBS News, approached the event with the signature buttoned-up style of a longtime network political correspondent. Also present was Olivia Reingold, an election-night contributor to CBS who is a staff writer for the Free Press, the popular opinion website co-founded by Weiss, who was named CBS News editor in chief last month."
"From a well-lit set inside the venue, O'Keefe reported Mamdani's projected win. "Word of the victory has just reached this crowd," O'Keefe said over the cheers of New Yorkers massing behind him, before offering up several minutes of political analysis. Reingold, for her part, documented on Instagram her experience as she waited in the wrapped-around-the-block lines to enter the venue (like "Soviet bread ones," quipped a Free Press video producer accompanying her on a separate Instagram account)."
"Once inside, she appeared briefly on the CBS News election night special. She trailed left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker, who said he had seen her "work on denying the Gaza famine" - a reference to Reingold's Free Press article asserting that media organizations had exaggerated starvation in the Palestinian enclave by using images of emaciated children who also had preexisting health problems. Piker laughed and declined her request to profile him for the Free Press, saying the outlet had "called me the handsome face of terror apologia.""
Two journalists affiliated with Bari Weiss's Free Press covered Zohran Mamdani's election-night watch party in Brooklyn for CBS News, illustrating emerging newsroom crossovers. Ed O'Keefe reported live from a well-lit set and provided political analysis after Mamdani's projected victory, while Olivia Reingold documented long, wrapped-around-the-block lines on Instagram and appeared briefly on the CBS special. Reingold followed commentator Hasan Piker, who accused her of "work on denying the Gaza famine" in reference to a Free Press piece and declined a Free Press profile, saying the outlet had "called me the handsome face of terror apologia." The moment underscores tensions between opinion-driven platforms and traditional network journalism during institutional transitions.
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