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NPR senior biz editor Berliner resigns

Uri Berliner

National Public Radio senior business editor Uri Berliner says he is resigning after criticism over his opinion piece in Free Press.

“I don’t support calls to defund NPR,” wrote Berliner. “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.”

Berline wrote an essay criticizing NPR’s coverage and was suspended for five days without pay. He has been senior business editor since June 2013. He previously was deputy national editor for NPR.

Berliner edits and reports on economics, technology and finance. He provides analysis, context and clarity to breaking news and complex issues. Berliner helped to build “Planet Money,” one of the most popular podcasts in the country.

Berliner’s work at NPR has been recognized with a Peabody Award, a Loeb Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, a Society of Professional Journalists New America Award, and has been twice honored by the RTDNA. He was the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.

A New Yorker, he was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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