Ed Henry Fired By Fox News After Workplace Investigation Into ‘Sexual Misconduct’

Longtime Fox News commentator Cathy Areu has joined forces with former Fox News employee Jennifer Eckhart to sue the network, claiming it didn’t take enough action over claims of sexual harassment and retaliation by some of the network’s top stars. In lawsuit paperwork filed on July 20 and obtained by HollywoodLife.com, Jennifer claimed that fired anchor Ed Henry sexually assaulted her on several occasions.

Journalist Jennifer Eckhart is not letting “fear of retaliation, victim shaming and further attacks” stop her from speaking out. This is what the former Fox Nation personality wrote on Twitter on July 20, the day she filed a lawsuit with co-plaintiff Cathy Areu (another journalist) against the Fox News Network and some of the biggest names to appear on the conservative news outlet: Ed Henry, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz.

another sexual misconduct lawsuit, this time naming hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and the recently fired Ed Henry. The sex trafficking, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation lawsuit was filed Monday morning, on behalf of former Fox News associate producer Jennifer Eckhart and network guest Cathy Areu. Eckhart claims she was raped by former White House chief correspondent Ed Henry, who was fired in June as a result of the charge.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the Disney-owned unit following an investigation into allegations of insensitive behavior and her treatment of employees, according to a person familiar with the matter,Staffers were notified of the matter Monday in a memo from Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television. “The investigation substantiated that Ms.

Also Read: Fox News Fires 'America's Newsroom' Co-Host Ed Henry After Sexual Misconduct InvestigationAccording to the suit, Eckhart was a 24-year-old production assistant at the network in 2014 when Henry reached out her via Twitter and began flirtatious interactions. After agreeing to meet him for a drink at the New York Marriott Marquis, she said that Henry “out of nowhere, began forcefully kissing Ms.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticTucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a sudden vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of alleged misconduct at the now Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace-run outlet.“It is widely documented in the public record that Fox News has not only cultivated and fostered sexual harassment and misconduct,

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTwo former staffers at Fox News Channel filed suit in federal court Monday, alleging they had been harassed individually by Ed Henry, the Fox News anchor who was fired by the cable-news outlet earlier this month following a complaint about “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace,” and their disclosures threaten to revive an era that the Fox Corp.-owned media company had hoped to put behind it after the ouster of Roger Ailes.One of the employees alleged she

He was suspended by the digital media company in June after multiple women accused him on Twitter of sexual misconduct during their time together at Emerson College.Also Read: NowThis News Suspends Politics Producer After Accusations of Collegiate Sexual Misconduct Surface“We take any allegations of sexual assault very seriously,” a spokesperson for NowThis told TheWrap at the time. “The employee in question was immediately suspended and we have promptly launched an investigation.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News has a link to TV broadcasting that hearkens to the days of Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. But a new special set to debut Sunday evening was made available for streaming earlier this week.The hour-long effort, “Pandemia: Latinos in Crisis,” focuses on the Latinx community and the pressures placed upon it and other communities of color by the coronavirus pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMeghan McCain says one of the biggest lessons in her TV career came when she was working alongside Harris Faulkner in the run up to the 2016 election at Fox News Channel.A viewer had slipped into her direct messages on Twitter with an unpleasant remark, and McCain, who says she is prone to react to such things, learned a different strategy from Faulkner, with whom she appeared regularly on the  Fox News early-afternoon program “Outnumbered.”  The advice? “You’ve

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“We should also point out to the ghouls that are beating their chest in triumphant at the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its costs,” said Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson tonight on his top-rated primetime show after one of his top writers was exposed for frequently posting racist, sexist and homophobic comments on a legal message board.“We are all human, when we pretend we are holy, we are lying,” Carlson continued in

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN in March gave a handful of advertisers and ad-agency personnel a sneak peek of its ambitious six-part documentary series on late night, just days before New York City was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. The project hasn’t been seen in public since.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe owners of Washington D.C.’s lucrative NFL franchise said they would begin a process to rename the team in the wake of recent criticism from advertisers and after years of downplaying the controversy.Officials of the team, long known as the Redskins, said Monday they “will be retiring the Redskins name and logo” following a review of possible new options.More to come…Want to read more articles like this one?

Bloomberg News, Audible employees found a sexual harassment lawsuit filed in February 2018 against Pop Media Group, Lionsgate and CBS by one of Pop TV’s sales VPs.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTop executives at Fox News Media condemned remarks made in an online forum by a now-resigned member of the staff of primetime show “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and said the network parted ways with him as soon as it learned of his behavior.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe new head of NBCUniversal’s news operations pledged to make the workforce that staffs NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC more diverse, calling for the unit’s employee base to be 50% female and 50% people of color over an undefined period of time.“The demographics of America have been changing for decades… and that change is accelerating.  Women today make up nearly half of the American work force and already earn well over half of all bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe owner of the Washington Redskins said Friday that the NFL team had launched a review of its name, after of resisting entreaties to do so.

stepped down after multiple people accused him of misconduct on social media. Ubisoft has not named Ismail’s replacement, and it was ununclear if he was fired or simply taking a leave of absence.However, just two days later Tommy Francois and Maxime Beland, both vice presidents in Ubisoft’s global game development division, were put on leave pending an investigation of multiple accusations of misconduct.

Fox News said on Wednesday it had fired Ed Henry, co-anchor of “America’s Newsroom,” over claims of “willful sexual misconduct” involving a co-worker from years ago.