National Public Radio on Friday officially suspended veteran editor Uri Berliner, who recently published an essay exposing the government-funded outlet’s alleged bias during former President Donald Trump’s presidency.
Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, alleged in the essay published in The Free Press that the outlet was seeking to take down Trump during his presidency by citing Russia-collusion accusations that subsequently were debunked. The outlet suspended Berliner without pay for five days starting on Friday, NPR reported on Tuesday.
NPR informed Berliner in a letter on Thursday afternoon that the editor neglected to get the outlet’s required sign-off for publishing an essay for another outlet, characterizing it as a “final warning.” NPR said Berliner would be fired should break the policy again, and the editor is not appealing the…
