NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns with blast at new CEO, reports NPR

NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner has resigned, citing the response of the network’s chief executive to his outside essay accusing NPR of losing the public’s trust, reports NPR.

“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” Berliner wrote in an email to CEO Katherine Maher. “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 cite in my Free Press essay.”

NPR and Maher declined to comment on his resignation, stated NPR.

According to an NPR post, The Free Press, “an online site embraced by journalists who believe that the mainstream media has become too liberal, published Berliner’s piece last Tuesday. In it, he argued that NPR’s coverage has increasingly reflected a rigid progressive ideology. And he argued that the network’s quest for greater diversity in its workforce — a priority under prior chief executive John Lansing – has not been accompanied by a diversity of viewpoints presented in NPR shows, podcasts or online coverage.

“Later that same day, NPR pushed back against Berliner’s critique.”

NPR is based in Washington, D.C.

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