May 1, 2017
Reports: Bill Shine Leaves Fox News
by EZRA DULIS
Breitbart.com
Bill Shine, co-president of Fox News, will part ways with the cable news network, according to Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine.
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BREAKING: Two sources inside Fox News say Bill Shine is out as of this morning
2:14 PM - 1 May 2017
A Fox News source told Breitbart News that Shine resigned.
Shine, 53, has worked at the cable news network since its inception in 1996. He was a producer on Hannity and Colmes and rose through the company, serving as a deputy to former CEO Roger Ailes.
Shine’s departure comes the week after Bill O’Reilly, long the king of primetime cable news ratings, left the network as a flurry of reports accused him of sexual harassment. O’Reilly has personally denied those allegations.
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch appointed Shine and Jack Abernethy as co-presidents after Ailes left the company in July 2016. Ailes stepped down amid sexual harassment allegations from former anchors such as Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Shine denied knowledge of any wrongdoing in those cases, and Ailes has similarly denied all the allegations against him.
Last week, primetime host Sean Hannity tweeted that if Shine were to leave the network, “that’s the total end of the FNC as we know it. Done.”
Several inside accounts have framed Fox News’s current woes as an identity crisis; Murdoch’s sons James and Lachlan are reportedly hoping to shake up their aging father’s creation into something more palatable to their worldview and less friendly to American conservatives.
Michael Wolff, a media reporter and biographer to Rupert Murdoch, reported in October of last year that the younger Murdochs want Jeff Zucker, currently President of CNN, to take over Fox News.
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