After a tumultuous week since releasing an op-ed criticizing his place of employment, NPR Business Editor Uri Berliner has announced he’s leaving the network.
In a post to X, Berliner announced that, after 25 years, he is departing the organization.
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” he wrote. “I don’t support calls to defund NPR,” Berliner wrote. “I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.”
However, Berliner pointed to the conduct of NPR CEO Katherine Maher was the biggest reason for his abrupt departure.
“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,” Berliner wrote.
Berliner was suspended late last week for breaking internal policies from the public broadcaster.
At the time of his suspension, he questioned whether or not new NPR CEO Katherine Maher was fit to lead the organization after former tweets of hers were unveiled, purporting to show a left-wing bias.
