Uri Berliner, the longtime senior business editor and reporter for National Public Radio (NPR) who wrote an illuminating piece a week ago confirming the network’s Trump-era transition from liberally biased to full-on woke, has resigned.
He posted this statement to Twitter Wednesday morning:
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defund NPR. 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.”
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
As RedState previously reported, the backlash in the NPR newsroom in response to Berliner’s Free Press article was…
