NPR Exec who fired Juan Williams resigns

Published January 6, 2011 5:00am ET



NPR just released two statements — one on the completion of an independent review of the Juan Williams firing, and another on the resignation of Senior Vice President for News Ellen Weiss who was responsible for firing Williams.

You can read the statements here, but essentially the review concluded that NPR was within its rights to fire Williams after he made some highly controversial — and highly contextualized — statements about Muslims. Nevermind, the NPR has never had a problem with insulting conservatives in the crudest terms possible and the whole episode quickly became a PR nightmare for NPR. Still, the review encourages NPR make some changes in light of the controversy, including the following:

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