New NPR CEO responds to editor’s claims it ‘lost America’s trust’

National Public Radio’s (NPR)’s new CEO denounced claims from a senior editor that the outlet has “lost America’s trust,” calling the comments made in an op-ed “disrespectful” and “hurtful.” Katherine Maher explained in a message to employees Friday that the editor, Uri Berliner, called the outlet’s mission into question in two ways: Critiquing the quality and integrity of the editorial process, and criticizing “who we are.” “Asking a question about whether we’re living up to our mission should always be fair game: after all, journalism is nothing if not hard...