Fox News co-president Bill Shine is out at Fox News. The move comes as Shine was due back on Monday after two days out of the office for a pre-planned long weekend. Suzanne Scott becomes president of programming and Jay Wallace has been promoted to president of news. Additionally, Brian Jones, EVP of Fox Business Network becomes president of the network reporting to Scott and Wallace.
Another Fox News Channel employee, Diana Falzone, has taken to the courts and has become the latest person to allege discrimination is part of the internal culture at the 21st Century Fox-owned network.
The Fox News Specialists will debut May 1 with Eboni K. Williams, Katherine Timpf and Eric Bolling discussing news of the day with two guest experts.
The company has quietly put out feelers for a possible new head of Fox News with the preference, say sources, that it be a woman.
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The U.S. Justice Department’s investigation of Fox News has widened to include a second law enforcement agency. Financial crimes experts from the United States Postal Inspection Service are now involved, according to four sources connected to the investigation. Mail fraud and wire fraud cases are part of the USPIS purview.
As Fox News is roiled by lawsuits and the ouster of Bill O’Reilly, the network’s co-president, Bill Shine, has told friends he recently asked Rupert Murdoch’s sons James and Lachlan — the CEO and co-chairman, respectively, of network parent company 21st Century Fox — to release a statement in support of him, but they refused to do so and Shine is expressing concern about his future at the network.
Viewers and advertisers returned to Fox News Channel after the recent high-profile departure of longtime on-air prime-time fixture Bill O’Reilly. Kantar Media says a key metric came from returning advertisers to Fox News in the 9 p.m. Monday through Friday primetime hour — where The Five now runs.
The lawsuit, filed in New York state Supreme Court, adds eight former and current Fox employees to a case involving three former Fox workers and their accusations against a since-fired Fox financial executive. It also expands the case to include Dianne Brandi, Fox’s chief counsel. Fox News said it vehemently denies the allegations, calling them “copycat complaints.” It said Brandi denies the claims against her.
Andrea Tantaros, the former Fox News co-host of The Five and Outnumbered, contended in a lawsuit filed Monday that the conservative cable news channel retaliated against her claims of sexual harassment by hacking her computer and conducting surveillance of telephone calls and emails.
Seven black Fox News employees plan to join a racial-discrimination suit filed last month by two colleagues. The original lawsuit alleged that Fox News’ longtime comptroller, Judy Slater, subjected members of Fox’s payroll staff to racial insults for years. (Fox News fired Slater in February after those employees began litigation against the network.)
Since taking over two years ago, James and Lachlan Murdoch seem determined to rid the company of the old-guard culture on which their father, Rupert Murdoch, built his empire.
21st Century Fox issued a statement Wednesday that “after a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel.” He had been scheduled to return from a vacation next Monday. It marks a stunning end to a near-perfect marriage between a pugnacious personality and network.
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Anchors and reporters at the cable news giants are directly attacking one another on the air, sniping over Twitter, blanketing the airwaves with coverage of each other’s controversies and counting the hours until their rival personalities are driven to ruin.
A pair of women are suing the cable news network, saying they were subjected to “top-down racial harassment” in the company’s payroll department, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Bronx.
The former chief financial officer of Fox News Channel, Mark Kranz, is said to have been offered immunity from prosecution by U.S. government attorneys looking into payments by the network and its parent, 21st Century Fox, to women who claimed to be harassed by Roger Ailes, the cable-news outlet’s former chief and leader.
Fox News is a singular force, crafting a searing narrative about what’s happening in the world for millions of viewers, including President Trump. The New York Times‘ John Koblin and Nick Corasaniti watched Fox News from 6 a.m. until midnight last Thursday to see how its coverage varied from that of its rivals on a day when cable news was dominated by the health care debate in Congress, the terrorist attack in London and the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.
After Megyn Kelly’s departure, Fox News benefitted from the ascendance of older white men. But now, the network is roiling from a new scandal.
Like many cable news shows in the Trump era, Fox & Friends has seen ratings jump, and not just in the White House. Its average February audience of 1.72 million viewers was 49% over last year’s, Nielsen said. The show usually has more viewers than MSNBC’s Morning Joe and CNN’s New Day combined. President Trump’s Twitter feed provides ample evidence of his devotion, too.
President Trump has some harsh words for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Saturday Night Live’s Alec Baldwin and CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker during an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters that will air on Saturday night.
A federal grand jury will hear testimony on whether Fox News improperly handled financial settlements given to female employees who made sexual harassment claims against the company.
A federal grand jury is expected to soon hear testimony linked to harassment claims at Fox News. But the dismissal of Preet Bharara may complicate the inquiry.
Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson will interview President Donald Trump in what’s being billed as “a wide-ranging conversation” that will air during Wednesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson’s first one-on-one sit-down with Trump since Election Day will occur in Detroit.
In late February, 21st Century Fox reached a settlement worth more than $2.5 million with Tamara Holder, a former Fox News contributor who reported that she was sexually assaulted by an executive at company headquarters two years ago, according to people briefed on the agreement.
