A veteran journalist has resigned from National Public Radio after he was suspended for writing an essay that accused the American broadcaster of left-wing bias.
Uri Berliner, a senior business editor who had been at the outlet for 25 years, announced his resignation in a social media post on Wednesday, blaming the broadcaster’s new chief executive, Katherine Maher.
“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,” he wrote. He called NPR a “great American institution” and expressed hope for the future success of the outlet and its journalists.
Berliner had been put on a five-day suspension without pay on April 12, David Folkenflik