NPR editor who accused outlet of liberal bias resigns
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Senior NPR editor resigns after accusing outlet of liberal bias
An editor for National Public Radio resigned Wednesday just days after he inflamed the ongoing culture war about mainstream media with an essay about what he considers the news outlet’s liberal leanings. Uri Berliner, who was a senior business editor, wrote an essay for the right-leaning online publication The Free Press in which he said he believes NPR is losing the public’s trust. NPR, a nonprofit radio network, has an “absence of viewpoint diversity,” he wrote in the essay, which was...
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Journalist who accused NPR of liberal bias resigns from the network
Uri Berliner, the veteran NPR journalist who publicly accused his employer of liberal bias, has resigned from the network. Berliner posted a message Wednesday on the social media platform X with his resignation letter to the public broadcaster's chief executive Katherine Maher. "I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years," Berliner wrote. "I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do...
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NPR Senior Editor Resigns After Blowing Whistle on Network’s Liberal Bias
NPR senior editor Uri Berliner resigned from the company on Wednesday after he was suspended for speaking out against the taxpayer-funded outlet’s transformation into a liberal echo chamber.