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Two months after a sexual harassment scandal led to his ouster from Fox, O’Reilly is considering competing against his former employer.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said on his Infowars website that the full interview he recorded with NBC’s Megyn Kelly will counter Kelly’s upcoming report, which he labeled a “fraud.”

As Fox News moves further into the post–Roger Ailes era, the network is shedding one of its most iconic elements. According to network executives, Fox News has abandoned the marketing slogan “Fair & Balanced.” Fox executives have been instructed by management to market the network by its other tagline: “Most Watched. Most Trusted.”

Due to the controversies swirling around the Trump administration, many nights feel as momentous for the future of the country as Election Night. In this fraught atmosphere, it’s no surprise that combined viewing of the Big Three cable-news networks — Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC — is up 33% through the first week of June compared with the same period last year, according to data from Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former financial executive at Fox News Channel says a racial discrimination lawsuit against her is “nothing more than a meritless and reprehensible money grab.” Lawyers […]

Fox News Channel said it promoted six executives — many of whom have been involved with producing shows in the cable news outlet’s primetime lineup — to new programming roles, all reporting directly to Suzanne Scott, president of programming for the 21st Century Fox-owned cable network.

The Wall Street Journal reports that discussions are under way for Noah Kotch, the editor of News Corp’s right-leaning news site Heat Street, to take the reins of FoxNews.com. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.

Three new lawsuits by people alleging a hostile work environment were filed just days after Roger Ailes’ death at age 77. And while Ailes was a potential witness in some lawsuits, his absence is unlikely to matter much.

Rupert Murdoch and his sons could be doing the right thing, or simply trying to expand their media empire

Online auto classifieds site Cars.com said it would cease advertising on Fox News Channel’s Hannity after the program’s popular host, Sean Hannity, over several broadcasts promoted a largely discredited story about the murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer, then said he would halt discussion of it for the time being out of concern for the victim’s family.

As the case of the Seth Rich murder shows, uncorroborated stories will spread as long as some people want to tell them, and others want to believe.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel has asked a federal court to throw out a lawsuit by former anchor Andrea Tantaros, saying her claims that “sock puppet” Twitter accounts […]

Earlier in the day, Fox News retracted its story insinuating that the DNC staffer was murdered because he leaked emails to WikiLeaks. Starting off his Fox News show, Hannity, on Tuesday,Sean Hannity addressed the controversy around his coverage of the story and spoke about how he had talked to Rich’s family and expressed his condolences. He then added that “out of respect for the family’s wishes, for now, I am not discussing this matter at this time.”

Fox News today retracted a story regarding the 2016 killing of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich after massive outcry over sharing conspiracy theories about the murder. “On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich,” the retraction reads. “The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.”

The stream of negative headlines for President Trump about his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia and the firing of FBI Director James Comey is shaking up the cable news ratings race.

Fox News was hit with new sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits on Monday, adding to the catalog of complaints that has rattled the U.S. cable news network and its corporate parent 21st Century Fox.

Fox News Channel is parting ways — again — with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, The Five. “Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement.

A former GOP operative to candidates including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Ailes later turned his media savvy to running TV networks. In early 1996 he accepted a challenge from media titan Rupert Murdoch to build a news network from scratch to compete with CNN.

The conspiracy-choked story of Seth Rich’s killing has made a sudden comeback thanks to Fox News, but the latest reporting seems to have generated more controversy than credibility. Rich’s family is demanding a retraction from Fox for airing unsubstantiated claims about the Democratic National Committee staffer, whose death last year generated a wild river of theories and innuendo about who was behind it.

Fox News Channel unveiled plans for a new centralized studio as well as the hiring of additional journalists and content creators, a sign the 21st Century Fox-owned outlet is working to move forward after several weeks of tumult. During a company-wide address to staffers Wednesday, 21st Century Fox Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch described plans for a centralized newsroom slated for completion in 2018. The new facility will be designed to spark communication among employer teams devoted to programming, news and digital.

NEW YORK (AP) — With President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey the week’s big story, MSNBC had one of its best ratings weeks in memory – perhaps […]

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former first lady of San Francisco and current Fox News host, is in conversations with the Trump administration about becoming White House press secretary, she said in an exclusive interview. Guilfoyle said the idea of her taking the job or another press role in the White House has been “raised by a number of people” in the Trump administration, although she declined to go into specifics.

The harassment scandals at Fox News have the potential to create legal problems up and down the corporate ladder, as attorneys attempt to show a culture of indifference to the complaints of female employees. Attorneys for 21st Century Fox are attempting to limit the damage, arguing in a legal brief filed Monday that the issues at Fox News cannot be used to sue Fox’s owned-and-operated stations.

The metastasizing Ailes affair is spilling over into the politics of New York, Virginia and the White House.

Although he has been widely depicted as a domestic abuser and serial sex harasser, Bill O’Reilly remains a hot TV property. Conservative media outlets are circling the former Fox News Channel ratings king in the hope of creating a potent competitor to Fox News Channel.

Marianne Gambelli, the former longtime head of ad sales for the NBC broadcast network, was named president of ad sales for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. She will start her new duties on May 22.

Prosecutors have taken testimony from several witnesses, including Laurie Luhn, about her severance package and how it was recorded on Fox’s books

The Wall Street Journal reports that federal authorities have interviewed current and former Fox News employees and on-air talent in a widening inquiry into the nature of sexual-harassment settlements and alleged intimidation tactics at the network, according to people familiar with the probe. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.

Rupert Murdoch and his sons have spent nearly a year trying to clean up the sexual harassment controversies at Fox News. Now comes the hard part.