The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 2, 2017 NPR's Michael Oreskes Resigns over Accusations of Sexual Assault ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. .