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NPR’s Michael Oreskes Resigns over Accusations of Sexual Assault

HeadlineNov 02, 2017

In the media industry, Michael Oreskes, NPR’s senior vice president for news, has resigned after multiple women said that they were meeting with Oreskes to talk about possible employment while he was Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, when he instead kissed them without their consent and stuck his tongue in their mouths.

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