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Uri Berliner suspended without pay for five days by National Public Radio for unauthorised outside work for another outlet

Lewis was named president of NPR in 1993, becoming the first Black person to take the role. He came to the job with a long resume from his time in Washington politics and business circles.

Twitter dropped the "Government-funded" and "China state-affiliated" labels, which implies government involvement in editorial content, from the accounts of various global media organizations, their profiles showed on Friday. Twitter dropped the "Government-funded Media" label from the accounts of US-based National Public Radio (NPR), British Broadcasting Corp and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…

American nonprofit National Public Radio or NPR will no longer post new content on its 52 official Twitter feeds. NPR said the decision was taken after Twitter labelled it as “state-affiliated media”, later modified to “government-affiliated media”.