Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) editor and reporter Uli Berliner resigned from the station Wednesday after being suspended without pay after publishing a lengthy essay criticizing the station’s inherent left-wing bias.
“I am leaving NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” Berliner posted on his X social media account. “I respect the integrity of my colleagues and want NPR to thrive and do important journalism.”
Berliner went on to elaborate: “I cannot work in a newsroom where the new CEO despises the disagreements that support the very issues at NPR that I cited in my Free Press essay.”
My resignation letter to the NPR CEO @kmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uli Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
As Breitbart News reported, the senior business editor took issue with the station earlier this month, citing a lack of diverse views and opinions due to left-leaning bias.
Berliner, in an editorial published I wrote in the Free Press that the rise of taxpayer-funded advocacy at NPR “began” with the election of former President Donald Trump in 2016.
The news industry veteran said that while there are 87 Democrats registered in editorial positions, there are likely zero Republicans in the same positions at the company’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.
This is really terrible for NPR. https://t.co/vO17QEb2tL
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 9, 2024
Edith Chapin, NPR’s chief news officer, said: I have written In a memo to staff shortly after the article was published, she and her news leadership team strongly rejected Berliner’s assessment.
He was later suspended without pay in retaliation.
Even more in the future…
