Uri Berliner

Uri Berliner
Berliner in 2016
Born1956 (age 67–68)
EducationSarah Lawrence College, Columbia University
ParentEva Kollisch

Uri Berliner (born 1956) is an American journalist who was the senior business editor for NPR from 1999 until his resignation in April 2024.

Early life and education

Berliner was born in 1956 as the only child of the lesbian rights activist Eva Kollisch and the photographer and artist Gert Berliner, who married in 1948 and divorced in 1959.[1] Gert's parents were captured by the Gestapo, sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, and murdered there in 1943.[2]

Berliner is a 1977 graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.[3] He holds a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1998.[4][5]

Career

Berliner began working for NPR in 1999. He oversaw business and economics coverage and supervised the program, "Planet Money," which covered the global economy.[6]

His reporting has been recognized with, among others, a Peabody Award,[7] a Loeb Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Society of Professional Journalists "New America" Award.[8][9]

Essay criticizing NPR, resignation, The Free Press

On April 9, 2024, The Free Press published an essay by Berliner titled "I've Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here's How We Lost America's Trust". in which he criticized NPR for having "coalesced around the progressive worldview" and "an open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR". Berliner contended that NPR had lost America's trust by representing only a narrow segment of the U.S. population in its coverage.[10]

Berliner was given a five-day suspension without pay on April 12 for failing to secure approval for outside work.[11] He resigned on April 17, saying he "cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged".[12]

He then started work at The Free Press in June 2024.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Eva Kollisch papers". Smith College. June 28, 2019. Archived from the original on April 18, 2024. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  2. ^ Berliner, Uri (November 14, 2018). "A Toy Monkey That Escaped Nazi Germany And Reunited A Family". NPR. Archived from the original on April 18, 2024. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  3. ^ "Making Sense of the Global Economy". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-04-20. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  4. ^ Nieman Fellows by Class Year Archived 2021-01-26 at the Wayback Machine Nieman.
  5. ^ Folkenflik, David (April 10, 2024). "NPR defends its journalism after senior editor says it has lost the public's trust". NPR. Archived from the original on April 11, 2024. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  6. ^ Making Sense of the Global Economy. Sarah Lawrence Magazine. Fall 2018.
  7. ^ "Uri Berliner." Nieman Reports, vol. 71, no. 2, spring 2017, p. 56.
  8. ^ "Uri Berliner". NPR. Archived from the original on April 16, 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  9. ^ Mullin, Benjamin; Robertson, Katie (April 11, 2024). "NPR in Turmoil After It Is Accused of Liberal Bias". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 11, 2024. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  10. ^ "I've Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here's How We Lost America's Trust". www.thefp.com. 2024-04-09. Archived from the original on 2024-04-15. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  11. ^ Oladipo, Gloria (2024-04-16). "NPR journalist suspended after public criticism of broadcaster's liberal slant". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  12. ^ Mullin, Benjamin (April 17, 2024). "NPR Editor Who Accused Broadcaster of Liberal Bias Resigns". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 17, 2024. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  13. ^ Manfredi, Lucas (2024-06-25). "Uri Berliner, NPR Editor Who Wrote Free Press Essay Criticizing NPR Bias, Joins The Free Press". TheWrap. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
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