In her memoir Settle for More, to be released Tuesday, Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly says Donald Trump routinely attempted to gain favorable treatment from other journalists and commentators. “This is actually one of the untold stories of the 2016 campaign: I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage,” Kelly said.
Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes responded Thursday to a reported excerpt in Megyn Kelly’s forthcoming book, in which she apparently details months of sexual harassment at the hands of Ailes.
Fox News has offered its biggest star north of $20 million a year to stick around at the cable news channel. But the hotly anticipated, and widely expected, auction for her talents has not materialized.
The Kelly File host is in active negotiations; keeping her at the network is a priority for management, including Rupert Murdoch. “It’s up to her” and others “would give their right arm for her spot,” he says.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told Fox News host Megyn Kelly she is “fascinated with sex” amid criticism of her coverage of sexual misconduct accusations against […]
Since the Roger Ailes scandal broke, 21st Century Fox’s James and Lachlan Murdoch have become more involved in the cable news network. Not only did the brothers unilaterally decide to retain the law firm Paul, Weiss, whose internal investigation facilitated Ailes’s exit, but they are now playing a pivotal role in persuading the network’s brightest star, Megyn Kelly, whose contract expires in July 2017, to sign a new pact.
Exclusives
Sean Hannity lashed out at his Fox News colleague Megyn Kelly on Twitter Wednesday night, saying that she “clearly” supports Hillary Clinton in response to comments Kelly made during her program earlier that night.
As of Wednesday night, negotiations between 21st Century Fox and soon-to-be-ousted CEO Roger Ailes were still unresolved. The New York Times looks at the wider implications of his departure at Fox, including how much of Ailes’ management team will remain, and meanwhile staffers remain in the dark on what’s to happen next.
Fox News’s seemingly unassailable position as the most powerful cable news channel was rocked this week by the news that Roger Ailes, the only leader the network has ever known, was negotiating his exit as chairman after accusations of sexual harassment. But no matter how unseemly his departure, Ailes will leave Fox News in strong shape. Speculation about who will replace him has already begun, with names including Bill Shine, Fox News’s senior EVP for programming; David Rhodes, president of CBS News and a former Fox exec; and Jesse Angelo, CEO of The New York Post, thought to be among the contenders.
News of Roger Ailes’ exit from Fox News seems to have been premature. The Fox News chief’s attorney said Tuesday that “there is no agreement,” and CNN’s Brian Stelter and Dylan Byers report that numerous media organizations walked back an initial story, first posted by Drudge Report, that Ailes was in fact out.
Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Fox News head Roger Ailes, released a statement denying reports that Ailes had harassed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. “Roger Ailes has never sexually harassed Megyn Kelly,” Estrich said. “In fact, he has spent much of the last decade promoting and helping her achieve the stardom she earned, for which she has repeatedly and publicly thanked him.”
The Daily Beast late Tuesday said that 21st Century Fox had confirmed that Fox News chief Roger Ailes, embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal, was leaving the news network. The site later said that Fox News had walked back their confirmation, with the news network issuing the following statement: “Roger is at work. The review is ongoing. The only agreement that is in place is his existing employment agreement.”
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who has been conspicuously absent among the group of Roger Ailes defenders, has broken her silence, according to a report in New York magazine. According to two sources briefed on parent company 21st Century Fox’s outside probe of the Fox News chief, Kelly told investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances toward her about 10 years ago when she was a young correspondent at Fox.
After a big year, Fox News Channell’s Megyn Kelly could command $20 million — but would her success carry to another network?
Megyn Kelly Presents averaged 4.8 million viewers on Fox on Tuesday night, but critics described the Fox News anchor’s broadcast debut on Fox as “awkward,” “pointless,” “boring” and “unimpressive.” A few even took issue with Kelly plugging her upcoming autobiography, instead of pressing her biggest guest, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, on important issues.
Megyn Kelly will interview Donald Trump in her Fox special Megyn Kelly Presents that’s slotted to air on May 17. This will be Kelly’s first one-on-one interview with Trump since their fiery encounter at the August 2015 GOP Presidential primary debate.
Still no word on whether Donald Trump might be among Megyn Kelly’s interviews for her Fox primetime special Megyn Kelly Presents, but the network has moved up its air date to May 17.
Donald Trump has had a lot of complaints about Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly’s coverage of his campaign. It turns out Kelly has plenty of criticisms about the way Trump has been covered everywhere else.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly is taking notes on who she feels could’ve been more supportive when she was attacked by Donald Trump. Fox’s Bill […]
Megyn Kelly will, for at least an hour, jump from Fox News Channel to Fox primetime, hosting a one-hour primetime special on Fox Broadcasting. Bill Geddie will serve as executive producer.
All Hail Megyn Kelly, TV’s Top Newswoman
Megyn Kelly is suddenly the premier TV newswoman in America. Well, maybe “suddenly” is not quite accurate since her success did not exactly happen overnight. Her nightly news-and-talk show on Fox News Channel, The Kelly File, has been the centerpiece of FNC’s primetime lineup for more than two years, since October 2013. In recent months, though, the graph line on her public profile has shot up dramatically.
The brightest star at Fox News, Megyn Kelly is a newly minted role model for women who sees her gender as irrelevant, and a conservative champion who transcends politics with her skillful skewering of windbags of both parties, most notably Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has resumed criticizing Megyn Kelly, threatening to disrupt the fragile, on-again-off-again truce between himself and Fox News. Trump took to Twitter during Kelly’s Thursday night broadcast to criticize her guests, as “dumb puppets.” He also claimed that he didn’t watch her show — which is doubtful, given his tweets — and retweeted users who disparaged the program.
Megyn Kelly’s Murrow Moment With Trump
By questioning Donald Trump about this behavior, FNC’s Megyn Kelly has assumed the role in the 2016 campaign of Edward R. Murrow, who questioned the demagoguery of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, and by fiercely defending Kelly against Trump’s spurious attacks against her, Roger Ailes has assumed the role of William S. Paley, the legendary CBS mogul who believed in Murrow.
