Longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner, who was serving a five-day suspension for blowing the whistle on liberal bias at the news organization, announced Wednesday he resigned.
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cited in my Free Press essay,” Berliner wrote in a statement published on X.
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
In a bombshell essay published last week, Berliner called out the taxpayer-funded outlet for losing “America’s trust” by reporting news with a left-wing slant and criticized them for alleged bias during former President Donald Trump’s presidency.
In an interview following the essay, Berliner specifically claimed NPR CEO Katherine Maher was incapable of directing the organization.
“We’re looking for a leader right now who’s going to be unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on,
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