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SBIndependent
April 29, 2018
Roger Ailes, founder of the Fox News Channel, was the big part of the discussion due to Carlson's lawsuit. McGinnis mentioned the challenging years Carlson dealt on “Fox and Friends” and the sexist and inappropriate comments she received from co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.
WPLG Local 10
April 29, 2018
He added that he played a key role in introducing Vester to former Fox News boss Roger Ailes, who later hired her. Ailes, who died in 2017, left the network amid sexual harassment allegations. NBC News had no comment on Saturday about the supportive letter. Vester left the TV news business in 2006.
PEOPLE.com
April 27, 2018
Carlson's lawsuit in 2016 accused her boss, former Fox News CEO and chairman Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment and retaliation. Ailes was accused of firing Carlson from the network after he “sabotaged her career because she refused sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasiveÃâà...
Westport News
April 27, 2018
WESTPORT — Gabriel Sherman's book on the late Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes details several accounts of women who allege the media giant sexually harassed them. At the time of the book's release in 2014, however, the story of abused women in Sherman's book went largely unnoticed,Ãâà...
TPM (blog)
April 21, 2018
Roger Ailes in 1968 as Nixon Campaign Staffer. By Josh Marshall | April 21, 2018 2:00 pm. share Ãâ÷ tweet. email. Roger Ailes, October 16th, 1968, campaign staff working for candidate Richard Nixon. OCTOBER 16: Roger Ailes, campaign committee member for Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon,Ãâà...
The Cheat Sheet
April 20, 2018
Roger Ailes, who some saw as the biggest man in media at the time, was impressed with her tapes and flew her to New York. Earhardt became the host of Fox & Friends FIRST. Then, in 2016, she replaced Elizabeth Hasselback on Fox & Friends and immediately resonated well with viewers. Next: She hasÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
April 20, 2018
Gizmodo finds it unimaginable that the Federal Bureau of Investigation could do a search of "Roger Ailes" in its files and fail to turn up anything related to the federal government's investigation of Fox News. On Thursday, Gizmodo asked a New York judge to rule that the FBI hasn't done an adequate search.
Stony Brook Statesman
April 20, 2018
... president of news coverage at CBS News, Carlson reflected on her experiences with the Me Too movement following her landmark sexual harassment lawsuit against former chief executive officer of Fox News, Roger Ailes. “Courage is contagious. And we're seeing that play out right now,” said Carlson.
Mansion Global
April 19, 2018
The mother of Donald Trump, Jr.'s estranged wife, Vanessa Haydon Trump, recently bought a $6.4 million apartment from the widow of former Fox executive Roger Ailes, according to Ms. Staab, who also represented that unit. She's also toured Paul McCartney through the building's penthouse, whereÃâà...
theday.com
April 18, 2018
After Gretchen Carlson sued Roger Ailes, the former chairman of Fox News, for sexual harassment in the summer of 2016, Steel's editor had assigned her and Schmidt to re-report the story of the 2004 case of Andrea Mackris, a young producer at Fox News. Following eight months of digging and reporting,Ãâà...
TIME
April 18, 2018
She disagreed behind the scenes with his hardball campaign tactics, masterminded by Jim Baker, Atwater, Roger Ailes and others. Late in the general-election campaign, aides sensed Barbara's unseen hand after speeches were rewritten in a softer tone. ”There were drafts of speeches that went into theÃâà...
New York Times
April 18, 2018
“But Roger Ailes ran a more journalistically honest organization.” News organizations have dealt with anchors' ethical lapses in varying ways. MSNBC suspended the liberal commentator Keith Olbermann in 2010 after it learned that he made campaign donations to Democratic congressional candidates.
Salt Lake Tribune
April 18, 2018
It's the network founded by Roger Ailes, who went down in flames after a sexual harassment lawsuit by former Fox host Gretchen Carlson after years of network stonewalling. Remember, too, Fox's handling of the story about Seth Rich, the young Democratic aide whose unsolved slaying on the streets ofÃâà...
The Verge
April 18, 2018
In December 2016 — in the wake of sexual assault allegations against prominent men like Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, and then-President-elect Donald Trump — tech writer April Glaser posited a simple solution for combating sexual assault: create a tool that would combine identity verification, encryption,Ãâà...
WBUR
April 9, 2018
The current #MeToo era was ushered in by outrage over revelations about the conduct of media stars... the late Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein... and Fox's Bill O'Reilly... all had paid millions to keep allegations of sexual harassment secret. Now, details of whatÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
April 9, 2018
But in the wake of the Roger Ailes scandal and a subsequent investigation into sexual harassment at 21st Century Fox, he was fired on Sept. 10, 2016. Pozner then filed a lawsuit against Fox for breaching his employment agreement and discriminating against him on the basis of religion. According toÃâà...
MassLive.com
April 5, 2018
It's been almost two years since former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson revealed she was a victim of sexual harassment by the network's then-chief executive and chairman Roger Ailes. She remembers the Internet trolls who attacked her at the time. "Kill yourself, hag!" she recounts the Twitterverse toldÃâà...
Vanity Fair
April 5, 2018
The indecision at the top of the network is something Murdoch didn't have to deal with during the authoritarian reign of Roger Ailes. “There's no one in charge,” one Fox anchor told me. The leadership vacuum is causing Fox's internal dysfunction to play out in public—something that also didn't happen inÃâà...
MassLive.com
April 5, 2018
It's been almost two years since former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson revealed she was a victim of sexual harassment by the network's then-chief executive and chairman Roger Ailes. She remembers the Internet trolls who attacked her at the time. "Kill yourself, hag!" she recounts the Twitterverse toldÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
March 29, 2018
Much of the old guard of executives closest to the late Roger Ailes has departed Fox News in the nearly two years since a sexual harassment scandal first rocked the cable news network. But in recent weeks, Fox News staffers have observed the quiet return of Dianne Brandi, the network's powerfulÃâà...
The Cut
March 24, 2018
Dhue, who worked at Fox News from 2000 to 2008, reached a $1 million settlement with 21st Century Fox in the summer of 2016, after her lawyers approached the company with sexual-harassment claims against O'Reilly and now-deceased Fox News chief Roger Ailes. After an April 2017 New York TimesÃâà...
Highlands Current
March 24, 2018
Joe Lindsley was appointed the editor of the Putnam County News & Recorder in 2009, soon after Roger Ailes, then the head of Fox News, moved to Garrison and purchased the weekly newspaper with his wife, Beth. A graduate of Notre Dame, Lindsley had been a researcher at the Weekly Standard whenÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 23, 2018
A New York federal judge won't yet dismiss a local Fox reporter's claim that she was fired in retaliation for complaining about discrimination — and found it's too early to tell whether it was irrelevant for her to reference other women's allegations against Roger Ailes and Billl O'Reilly in her complaint.
New York Times
March 23, 2018
The apartment, which is undergoing a renovation, was purchased from Elizabeth Ailes, the widow of the former Fox News executive Roger Ailes, said Carol Staab, Ms. Ailes's real estate broker. Ms. Haydon said in an email that the family would not be making any statements. “We all love Vanessa, andÃâà...
South Florida Reporter
March 21, 2018
Andrea Tantaros Goes After Dead Roger Ailes' Estate In Palm Beach Court! By ... jackassery for years as co-host of the afternoon news/entertainment fare The Five, has filed a claim in a Palm Beach County court against the probate estate of her former boss, deceased former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
Gossip Extra
March 21, 2018
Andrea Tantaros, who spewed political jackassery for years as co-host of the afternoon news/entertainment fare The Five, has filed a claim in a Palm Beach County court against the probate estate of her former boss, deceased former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. Vulture much? The thing about Tantaros'Ãâà...
WRAL.com
March 19, 2018
Roger Ailes would be so proud, if he were still alive and harassing women. Trump thinks he's a fabulously devious manager creating “great energy,” with great ratings coming from his talent for theatrical twists and turns. But he's really inhumane, playing people against one another and widely discussingÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
March 19, 2018
July 21, 2016 - Takes over as chairman and acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network as Roger Ailes resigns amid allegations by Fox employees of sexual harassment. August 12, 2016 - Names Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy as co-presidents of Fox News to replace Ailes. The two willÃâà...
Deadline
March 19, 2018
After discussing, at length, how very right Omarosa got it when she warned her Celebrity Big Brother housemates they'd be begging for Donald Trump's return were he impeached and Mike Pence became POTUS, HBO late-night star John Oliver revealed the only thing he likes about Pence: his rabbit.
New York Times
March 18, 2018
In July 2016, Ms. Carlson sued Roger Ailes, then chairman and chief executive of Fox News, claiming sexual harassment. After dozens of women came forward with their own accounts of harassment by Mr. Ailes, he was forced to resign. Two months later, 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News,Ãâà...
The Rattler
March 4, 2018
In a moment marked by public denunciations of sexual violence from Weinstein; Matt Lauer; Charlie Rose; Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly to politicians like Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.); Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) and President Trump, the stage seems set to confront the scope ofÃâà...
Thehour.com
March 4, 2018
... occurred in prior cases that received publicity, such as when Greenwich resident Gretchen Carlson pointed the finger at her Fox News boss Roger Ailes. The OperationsInc workshops have evolved in the past year as the movement has brought to the forefront ancillary concerns about sexual harassment,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
HOLLYWOOD — I ran into Harvey Weinstein at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last year. He should have been in his element, dominating and manipulating the Oscars, using the statuettes as a golden lure for young actresses, swanning around as a rare avatar of good taste and champion of roles for olderÃâà...
CNNMoney
March 2, 2018
The column was later removed from the Fox News website. A network spokesperson told media outlets at the time that the article did "not reflect the views or values" of the company. Moody's departure is the latest shakeup in Fox News' executive ranks. Roger Ailes was ousted as CEO and chairman of theÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
February 20, 2018
Fox News Network outed a closeted gay businessman in Maitland because it didn't want to pursue a reality TV show about estate sales, according to a lawsuit in Orlando federal court. The businessman, Silas Pierce, 61, is now suing Fox and the estate of the late Fox founder, Roger Ailes, for unspecifiedÃâà...
MuckRock
February 15, 2018
All of this appeared to pay off, with Ailes getting a good bill of health from none of than FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover himself. Two interesting details have emerged from later in the file, however. The first is a 1974 arrest for felony firearms possession by the New York Police Department … which Ailes wasÃâà...
Recode
February 13, 2018
But at least one part of the book is not a matter of dispute, at least according to media executive Janice Min. The now-famous dinner scene between the late Roger Ailes, former head of Fox News, Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Trump, and Wolff himself is entirely accurate according toÃâà...
The Blast
February 11, 2018
A Florida man is suing the estate of Roger Ailes, Fox News, and former co-president of Fox News Bill Shine for outing him as gay during a legal battle over a reality show. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Silas Pierce was scheduled to star in a reality show produced by Leftfield PicturesÃâà...
CNN
January 28, 2018
(CNN) The FBI on Friday released some of its files on the late former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes as well as those relating to the investigation of the 2015 death of a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 114 pages relating to Ailes date back to 1969, when the FBI conducted a "SpecialÃâà...
Deadline
January 26, 2018
The tech website Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act request shortly after Ailes was found dead in his Florida home last year. The 114-page file (including 34 redacted pages, read it here) was started before his stint working for President Nixon and ranges from 1969-90. Ailes, one of the mostÃâà...
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
Anoka, Minnesota native and former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is returning to TV. The ex-Fox & Friends host — who was an early and influential force in the #MeToo movement — will create and host a series of documentary specials for A&E Networks. The first of these specials, The Brave withÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
The late Roger Ailes, former chairman and CEO, is credited with creating the old slogan, according to The Hill. Pushing back against President Trump's "fake news" bashing, CNN also launched a new ad campaign last year called "Facts First." One ad begins by showing an apple. “Some people might try toÃâà...
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