Promoted to co-presidents in August following the exit of Roger Ailes, Abernethy and Shine oversee both Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, dividing responsibilities for all facets of the networks.
Fox News Channel has tapped Dana Perino (l) and Chris Stirewalt to host a Sunday program through the current election cycle. Perino & Stirewalt: I’ll Tell You What is the first new program to launch on the 21st Century Fox-owned network since the departure of longtime leader Roger Ailes.
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Greta Van Susteren has left Fox News Channel after 14 years and Brit Hume will anchor On the Record beginning today.
21st Century Fox and Gretchen Carlson said today they settled the former Fox News correspondent’s sexual harassment suit against the company. Fox’s statement said, in part, “We sincerely regret and apologize for the fact that Gretchen was not treated with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve.” No terms of the settlement were disclosed, but a source familiar with the settlement said Carlson was paid $20 million.
A spokeswoman for New York, Lauren Starke, said Monday that both the magazine and Gabriel Sherman, author of its reporting on the sexual harassment allegations against former Fox exec Roger Ailes, had been contacted on behalf of Ailes and his wife, Elizabeth, by Charles Harder, a well-known libel attorney who has in recent months has caused a stir in the news industry for representing Hulk Hogan and Melania Trump.
Gabriel Sherman’s highly-anticipated (and minutely-detailed) saga of Roger Ailes’ undoing is here, and it’s sure to be the holiday weekend’s mandatory long read for anyone in media. It’s all there: the odious, predatory episodes with young women; a Fox News corporate culture complicit in Ailes’ wanton — and paranoid — behavior; and the certitude, as Ailes now shifts his weight behind Donald Trump’s candidacy, that the last chapters are far from written yet.
Although cable TV networks continue to reap overall benefits from this political election season, the big cable news leader got a bit of mixed news for the month of August.
Fox News Channel says its former host Andrea Tantaros “is not a victim of sexual harassment as her lawsuit against the network claims, rather, she is an “opportunist.” FNC is calling for arbitration which it says is in accordance with her employment agreement. The network notes that she is already a party to pending arbitration after having been suspended by Fox, which has accused her of breaching her employment agreement by writing a book without prior authorization by the network.
Roger Ailes had a 400-page opposition research-style file on Gabriel Sherman, who profiled Ailes in his book The Loudest Voice in the Room. Brian Stelter says the newly-unearthed file shows a “stunning display of Ailes’ campaign-like strategies,” though a number of reporters have long suspected Fox’s PR department kept such files. For his part, Sherman is taking the file’s existence in stride.
21st Century Fox has a problem at its news channel that isn’t Roger Ailes: the network’s aging audience. FNC’s average primetime viewer was 68 in the second quarter, according to Nielsen data, and has been above 65 for years. That tarnishes what’s likely to be the best year ever for the most-watched cable channel in the U.S. during the presidential election season. Audiences at CNN and MSNBC are also in their 60s, but they are younger on average than Fox’s.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News correspondent Ed Henry is returning to the air four months after allegations of an extramarital affair led to his “taking some time off,” as […]
Brian Stelter combs through Andrea Tantaros’ lawsuit against Fox News, which she said engaged in retaliatory behaviors against her for complaining about her boss Roger Ailes’ behavior with her. A salient element of the suit is the role of Fox’s PR team, whose personnel acted “as natural extensions of [Ailes’] never-ending campaign against opponents, including but not limited to Democratic politicians and liberal media outlets.”
Now that Roger Ailes is out at Fox News Channel, what’s life like at the No. 1 cable news network? Well, there’s a lot of Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. boss who took over after Ailes was forced out last month following a sexual harassment scandal. However, major strategic decisions are being kicked down the road until after the November election.
Andrea Tantaros, a former Fox News host, charged in a lawsuit filed Monday that top executives at the network, including the man who replaced Roger Ailes, punished her for complaining about sexual harassment by Ailes. The suit by Tantaros, filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, is the latest round in a contentious volley that began in late winter.
These agreements impose silence on sexual harassment victims to protect the company, but this fosters the perception that they are really cover-ups.
A small number of Fox News employees who were known for known for having ties to former network chief Roger Ailes have quietly left the network in recent days. Brigette Boyle and Nikole King, the SVP of recruitment for Fox News and Fox Business, and the SVP of business development and mobile for Fox News, respectively, are among those who have departed.
Shine, a loyal right-hand man to Roger Ailes, was little known outside the TV industry before Ailes’s abrupt departure and his promotion. On Friday, he was placed in charge of news and programming at Fox News and the Fox Business Network, where he will lead a newsroom still reeling from Ailes’s sudden fall last month and a groundswell of allegations of harassment.
Ever since former Fox host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s co-founder, Fox has been tight-lipped about telling its viewers about the allegations.
Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy, both Fox News Channel veterans, were named today by Rupert Murdoch to help fill the void left by the ouster of Roger Ailes.
More women have come forward as the media giant carries out an internal probe. The number of women who have come forward in the investigation to say they were victims of Ailes reaches into the double-digits, people familiar with the matter said. 21st Century Fox is anticipating having to reach settlements with some of those accusers, the people said.
The CNN Reliable Sources host said Fox News spied on him under the cover of a romance with one of the network’s staffers while he was in college running his TVNewser blog.
In the cable news network’s subterranean newsroom, fear is everywhere. “Hacking was bad,” says one person familiar with the internal investigation. “This is arguably worse.” Perhaps the biggest object of curiosity in the newsroom these days is the internal investigation currently being conducted by the law firm Paul, Weiss. The investigation originally focused exclusively on Ailes, but has expanded to other Fox News executives.
As Rupert Murdoch seeks to stabilize Fox News in the wake of Roger Ailes’s ouster, a crucial question remains unanswered: How was Ailes able to spend millions of dollars to settle sexual-harassment claims without setting off alarm bells? New York magazine says according to three highly placed sources, part of the answer is that there were few checks on Ailes when it came to the Fox News budget.
New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman has clearly led the reporting of the harassment claims against the former Fox News chief. Why? Deep sources and dogged persistence.
An attorney for former Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue, who says Roger Ailes once asked her if she was wearing underwear, says 21st Century Fox has not investigated sexual harassment claims against Ailes properly.
Fox News Channel has hired American Wife author and military veteran family activist Taya Kyle as a contributor, the network announced today. In this role, Kyle will provide military and family commentary […]
Rupert Murdoch as the network’s interim chief after Roger Ailes’s ouster is a smart move, but Murdoch’s sons may have a hand in the direction of the empire.
