Uri Berliner resigned from NPR earlier today after accusing his longtime employer of systemic liberal bias.
Berliner, an editor and journalist who won the Peabody Award, accused the legacy media outlet of lacking viewpoint diversity in a scathing editorial posted to Substack last week.
The Hill has more:
In social media post Wednesday, Berliner published his resignation letter to NPR leadership in which he called the network “a great American institution” and distanced himself from recent calls to “defund” the outlet.
“I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism,” Berliner wrote. “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.”
In his essay, Berliner wrote NPR had strayed too far left politically and was increasingly only presenting “the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
The essay sparked widespread outrage throughout the company, with many leading hosts and reporters blasting Berliner, questioning his motives and pushing back on his assertions about the way the company operates editorially.
NPR suspended Berliner last week, saying he failed to obtain approval to work for another outlet, which is required for all employees.
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