NPR journalist suspended after public criticism of broadcaster’s liberal slant

Uri Berliner, in an article for the Free Press, claimed: ‘An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR.’ The station’s editor-in-chief strongly disagreed. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

The National Public Radio employee who recently published a scorching letter accusing the media organization of a liberal slant has been suspended without pay for five days.

Uri Berliner, an NPR senior business editor, was punished last Friday after backlash from an article he wrote for the Free Press, a website operated by the former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss.