NPR senior editor Uri Berliner announced his resignation from the outlet after he was suspended for writing an essay criticizing its bias without informing his employer.

Berliner posted his resignation to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where he called out NPR CEO Katherine Maher for disparaging him and said her views confirmed his criticism of the outlet. The longtime NPR editor also said he hoped for NPR and “important journalism” to thrive, pushing back on calls for NPR to be defunded.

“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” Berliner said. “I don’t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But 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.”

Berliner wrote in the Free Press last week that the outlet does not reflect the many viewpoints of the country and has become uniform in its ideology.

“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America,” Berliner wrote in his essay.

He also said in the piece that he would be “rooting” for Maher, advising her to the first rule of the outlet: “Don’t tell people how to think.”

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Previous posts from Maher on her X account have resurfaced in the past week, including a post where she called former President Donald Trump a “deranged racist sociopath.”

NPR receives some funding from the federal government, but despite renewed calls for the outlet to have its federal funding pulled, Berliner argued in his essay that change at the outlet can only come from within.