NPR has suspended a veteran editor who wrote an essay criticizing the community broadcaster for possessing what he explained as a deficiency of politically varied viewpoints.
Uri Berliner, an award-successful business enterprise journalist who has labored at the network for 25 decades, will be off the work for 5 times with no pay. Berliner acknowledged the suspension Monday in an interview with Countrywide Public Radio. He did not react to The Times’ request for remark.
The suspension came after Berliner put a severe spotlight on NPR with an April 9 belief piece for the Substack newsletter the Totally free Push. He mentioned the decrease in NPR’s audience degrees is owing to a transfer towards liberal political advocacy and catering to “a distilled worldview of a really tiny section of the U.S. population.” The total thrust of the piece asserted that NPR has “lost America’s have confidence in.”
An NPR consultant stated the community “does not comment on person personnel matters, including willpower. We be expecting all of our personnel to comply with NPR procedures and processes, which for our editorial team incorporates the NPR Ethics Handbook.”
Berliner was informed by management past week that he violated firm policy by