Michael Weiss (journalist)

Michael Weiss is an American journalist and author. Weiss is a senior editor for The Daily Beast, a columnist for Foreign Policy, an author and a frequent national security analyst and contributor for CNN.

Weiss was educated at Townsend Harris High School, a public magnet high school in Flushing, Queens in New York City, from which he graduated in 1998, followed by Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in History.

Weiss has served as co-chair of the Russia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society (HJS).

Weiss currently serves as the editor-in-chief for the online magazine Interpreter, which translates and analyzes Russian news, and senior editor of The Daily Beast, a regular columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. In 2015, he co-wrote the book ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Hassan Hassan.

In November 2014, Weiss published a special report in his online magazine the Interpreter that accused Russia of waging "propaganda and disinformation" campaigns. Weiss's report included recommendations on how to confront Russian propaganda which included creating an “internationally recognized ratings system for disinformation.”The recommendations were criticized in The Nation by James Carden of the American Committee for East-West Accord as a "censorship campaign."