Uri Berliner, a former editor who left NPR after exposing its alleged liberal bias, has found a new job at the same outlet where she blew the whistle on NPR’s problems.
“I joined the Free Press because it provides America with innovative, fearless and independent journalism, and I am thrilled to be joining the team,” Berliner said in a statement on Tuesday.
Berliner resigned in April after being suspended for failing to sign off on outside work for other media outlets. Free Press Essay He slammed NPR’s reporting on Russiagate, the COVID lab leak rumor, Hunter Biden’s apartment, and other polarizing topics.
The Free Press was founded by Bari Weiss, a former opinion editor at The New York Times who also accused her former employer of liberal bias before going independent. In her 2020 resignation letter, Weiss described the Times as a toxic workplace where she was bullied by colleagues in a “non-liberal environment.”
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Yuri Berliner was a longtime editor at NPR who famously resigned in April after being suspended for publicly criticizing NPR’s reporting. (Getty Images)
Berliner was initially suspended without pay for five days in April, after which he decided to resign.
Berliner’s allegations about NPR have rocked the media industry. He wrote that his then-employer NPR was “slightly left-leaning” in 2011 but has now leaned toward its current form, saying “the open-minded ethos is no longer there.” He wrote that NPR’s “lack of diversity of viewpoints” has plagued the company, and his allegations have sparked calls from the right to defund NPR.
Berliner will become senior editor of the Free Press.
“We’re lucky to have him.” Weiss wrote.
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Former NPR editor Uri Berliner (left) and NPR CEO Katherine Maher (right). (Fox News Digital/Getty Images)
NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin previously said that she and her team “strongly disagree” with Berliner’s assessment of the quality and integrity of NPR’s journalism.
“I am proud of the great work our desk and programs do to cover a wide range of challenging news, and we believe inclusivity across our staff, sources and coverage is key to telling the nuanced stories of our country and the world,” she wrote as part of a lengthy memo in April.
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Amid the uproar over Berliner’s revelations, social media posts from NPR’s new president and CEO, Katherine Maher, have resurfaced, revealing strong progressive leanings.
