Veteran NPR host Ari Shapiro is saying goodbye to the network and “All Things Considered,” the latest high-profile departure following the move by President Donald Trump administration’s to defund public media.

But the move to kill federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting isn’t the reason Shapiro said he leaving the network he has called home for 25 years.

“My decision to move on has nothing to do with the challenges facing public radio, the news media, or the country. Those are real and profound, and I plan to continue engaging with them in meaningful ways,” Shapiro wrote on Substack. “But they aren’t informing this transition.”

Edith Chapin, a senior vice president at National Public Radio and the network’s acting chief content officer, said in a memo to staff Shapir

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