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    NPR suspended senior editor Uri Berliner, who spoke out against NPR's liberal bias, the taxpayer-funded outlet revealed in a story Tuesday morning. Berliner was suspended for five days without pay, beginning last Friday, NPR reported. Berliner’s suspension comes after he wrote an op-ed for the Free Press titled, "I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust," in which he detailed how the outlet developed a "devastating" left-wing bias over the years.

  • 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...

  • NPR editor who accused outlet of liberal bias resigns

    Uri Berliner exits days after publication of an essay saying news organization no longer has an ‘open-minded spirit’An editor at National Public Radio who publicly accused the news organization of having a liberal bias and a growing absence of “viewpoint diversity” has resigned, days after being suspended without pay.On Wednesday, Uri Berliner posted a screenshot of his resignation letter to NPR’s CEO, Katherine Maher, in which he wrote: “I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution...