NPR chief works to clean up public image with extra editorial review, meeting with GOP senator

NPR's CEO met with a Republican senator the same day NPR rolled out a new editorial layer at the publication after receiving an onslaught of criticism due to alleged bias.

Last month, the senator led a letter to Maher that was signed by six other Republican senators. In the correspondence, they stressed significant concerns about the direction of the organization and its leadership following allegations of bias made by former senior editor Uri Berliner in his essay. 

Berliner claimed to have found 87 Democrats and zero Republicans in editorial positions when researching his coworkers' voter registrations at the NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.