NPR’s new CEO, who was called out by whistleblower over pervasive left-wing bias, recently purchases $2.7M NYC townhouse
Katherine Maher, the new CEO of National Public Radio, recently purchased a sprawling three-bedroom, three-bathroom Brooklyn brownstone for $2.7 million, The Post has learned.
Maher, 40 and who started at NPR in January, closed on the property last October, according to city property records — a month after the former CEO of NPR, John Lansing, announced he would be stepping down from the position come the new year.
Lansing is credited to having significantly transformed the station during his tenure from 2019 to 2023 with how they approached political coverage.
Now, however, Maher has been at the center of controversy after veteran editor and reporter, Uri Berliner, revealed political bias amid the publicly funded organization in an essay written last week for Bari Weiss’s The Free Press.
In the piece, Berliner noted that there was an 87-to-zero ratio in registered Democrats versus Republicans in its headquarters — and how that’s led to a liberal bias in the outlet’s coverage and internal culture.
On Wednesday, Berliner resigned after 25 years with the broadcaster after Maher, who doesn’t have a professional background in news, suspended him without pay for publishing the piece.
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” Berliner wrote on his X account.
“I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.”
Berliner wrote that he “cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.”
While the publicly funded non-profit media organization is based in Washington, DC, it remains unclear why Maher has chosen to own a residence in New York City as she takes the reins. Maher didn’t respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Maher purchased the Park Slope residence with husband, lawyer Ashutosh Upreti, who she married in August 2023.
Occupying nearly 2,000 square feet, the residence is described as a two-family home that can be converted into a single-family spread.
The owner’s duplex includes a living room, a dining room, an expansive kitchen, and two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It also holds has a washer/dryer unit.
There is also the option to rent the one-bedroom apartment below, the previous listing notes.
Features there include hardwood floors, and an expansive bluestone backyard and a deck. The basement has also been waterproofed.
