Katherine Maher's past political activity flies in the face of NPR's ethics handbook

NPR reprimanded Uri Berliner for violating its policies while appearing to turn a blind eye towards the brazen conduct of Katherine Maher before she stepped into her role as the organization's president and CEO.

Berliner, the veteran editor who penned the bombshell essay about NPR's liberal bias, was handed a five-day unpaid suspension for not seeking NPR's permission to appear on another news platform before going to The Free Press. Berliner resigned from the organization, writing in part, "I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cited in my Free Press essay."

What he was referencing was the trove of social media posts Maher, who took over NPR in March 2024, had written over the years displaying woke ideologies and pro-Democrat activism, which included explicit support towards Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and attacks on former President Trump.

While her social media activity came long before she joined NPR, it nevertheless appears to be in clear violation of NPR's staff expectations laid on in its ethics handbook according to a Fox News Digital review of its policies.

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"We take seriously our democratic role as watchdogs, holding the powerful accountable as we hold ourselves to the core principles of honesty, integrity, independence, accuracy, contextual truth, transparency, respect and fairness for the people we serve and the people we cover," NPR's handbook says in its opening "Guiding Principles" section.

Under its "Honesty Online" section, NPR states "Even on purely recreational or cultural sites and even if what we're doing is