NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner resigned this morning, citing the response of the network’s chief executive to his outside essay accusing NPR of losing the public’s trust.
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” Berliner wrote in a letter 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.
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