Uri Berliner Explained

Uri Berliner
Education:Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University
Parents:Eva 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 12 April 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eva Kollisch papers . June 28, 2019 . . April 11, 2024 . April 18, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240418002437/https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/1123 . live .
  2. Web site: A Toy Monkey That Escaped Nazi Germany And Reunited A Family . November 14, 2018 . Berliner . Uri . . April 11, 2024 . April 18, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240418002924/https://www.npr.org/2018/11/14/663059048/a-toy-monkey-that-escaped-nazi-germany-and-reunited-a-family . live .
  3. Web site: Making Sense of the Global Economy . 2024-05-14 . www.sarahlawrence.edu . en . 2024-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240420015043/https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/magazine/global-citizen/features/making-sense-of-the-global-economy.html . live .
  4. https://nieman.harvard.edu/alumni/list-of-alumni-by-class-year/ Nieman Fellows by Class Year
  5. Web site: NPR defends its journalism after senior editor says it has lost the public's trust . April 10, 2024 . Folkenflik . David . David Folkenflik . . April 11, 2024 . April 11, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240411001033/https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity . live .
  6. https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/magazine/global-citizen/features/making-sense-of-the-global-economy.html Making Sense of the Global Economy.
  7. "Uri Berliner." Nieman Reports, vol. 71, no. 2, spring 2017, p. 56.
  8. Web site: Uri Berliner . NPR . 17 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240416203212/https://www.npr.org/people/2101611/uri-berliner . April 16, 2024.
  9. Web site: NPR in Turmoil After It Is Accused of Liberal Bias . April 11, 2024 . Mullin . Benjamin . Robertson . Katie . . April 11, 2024 . April 11, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240411191846/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/npr-criticism-liberal-bias.html . live .
  10. Web site: 2024-04-09 . I've Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here's How We Lost America's Trust. . 2024-04-15 . www.thefp.com . en . 2024-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240415002435/https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust . live .
  11. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/16/uri-berliner-npr-suspended
  12. Web site: NPR Editor Who Accused Broadcaster of Liberal Bias Resigns . April 17, 2024 . Mullin . Benjamin . . April 17, 2024 . April 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240417154749/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/media/uri-berliner-npr-resigns.html . live .
  13. https://www.thewrap.com/ex-npr-editor-uri-berliner-joins-free-press/

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