| | | | Dylan Byers just published this must-read story:
"There are women at Fox News who want to speak up. But they're afraid. They've seen other women stand up for themselves -- against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, against host Bill O'Reilly -- and lose their jobs as a result. Meanwhile, they've seen those men defended and handsomely compensated by the company."
The key graf: "For many female employees at Fox News these days, the mood is one of fear and disappointment, several current and former employees told CNNMoney."
One of the sources asked Dylan: "Who else is suffering in silence?" Read the full story here... | | | What female employees at Fox are saying | | There were no new harassment allegations against O'Reilly on Monday, two days after the NYT's explosive story was published. But there was a new lawsuit against Ailes and several other new developments.
Dylan says the revelation that Fox recently renewed O'Reilly's contract "dealt a crushing blow to employees' faith in the company's claim that it had zero tolerance for sexual harassment. The revelation was especially hard for younger female employees who fear they are working in an archaic, Mad Men-era work environment and have no leverage against powerful on-air talents like O'Reilly, the sources said." Read more...
-- No comment: Fox News did not respond to an email summarizing the sources' claims...
-- Dylan is talking more about this with Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight" at 11pm ET... | | Keep scrolling for the day's OTHER developments about O'Reilly and Fox... But first... | | | 15 years later and 238,000 fewer jobs fewer | | New today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a big picture view of the bleeding in newspaper newsrooms:
"From January 2001 to September 2016, the newspaper publishers industry lost over half of its employment," from 412,000 to 174,000.
There were also declines, but much smaller declines, at radio, magazine and book publishing companies. Small increase in TV broadcasting. There's been a big spike in the "Internet publishing and web search portals" category, and those jobs pay better, but Google et al is obviously skewing that category.
-- WashPost's Catherine Rampell tweets: "BTW, U.S. has lost many more newspaper jobs than coal jobs over that period, in both raw numbers and percentage terms..." | | "Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. eliminated 289 jobs at its newspapers amid a decline in print readership and advertising revenue. And some of the papers "are also reducing the amount of pages they publish," Bloomberg's Katherine Chiglinsky reports... | | Two related headlines that stood out to me after another morning of POTUS tweeting about "Fox & Friends:"
The Atlantic's Lloyd Grove: "President Trump Has Become Fox News's No 1 Assignment Editor"
The Daily Beast's Elaine Godfrey: "Trump's TV Obsession Is a First" // Subhed: "No president has consumed as much television as the current one, or reacted as quickly or directly to what they were seeing." | | | Trump signs bill invalidating "flawed" privacy rules | | The headline on CNNMoney's story by Rob McLean and Seth Fiegerman: "President Trump just signed off on killing your Internet privacy protections." The law "repealed protections requiring Internet service providers to get your permission before collecting and sharing data." New FCC chair Ajit Pai says those ruled were "flawed..." Read more... | | | Now back to our top story... | | | Two more challenges for Fox | | Tom Kludt emails: A one-two punch for Fox News on Monday. First came a fresh lawsuit from Fox contributor Julie Roginsky accusing ex-chairman Roger Ailes of sexual harassment and retaliation. The suit also names Bill Shine, accusing the current Fox co-president of retaliating after Roginsky refused to comply with the network's efforts to "malign" Gretchen Carlson last summer. Roginsky, it should be noted, is represented by Nancy Erika Smith, the attorney who provided counsel to Carlson.
Then, shortly before 5pm, I received the first evidence of potential economic fallout for the king of cable news. A spokesperson for Mercedes-Benz told me that its advertising on the "O'Reilly Factor" had been "reassigned in the midst of this controversy." | | | Silence from most advertisers | | Tom Kludt adds: I've reached out to more than 20 "Factor" advertisers and, aside from Mercedes-Benz, most provided vague responses, or indicated that its ads on the program were placed there via a blanket package... | | | Ad boycott? Here's a reality check | | Brian Lowry emails: It's going to take an awful lot of sponsors getting cold feet to put a serious dent in "The O'Reilly Factor" and Fox News' revenue. Historically, advertisers pull their spots, then quietly return when the heat blows over. The larger problem for Fox is less financial than about public relations, and the fact that its attempt to put sexual-harassment stories in the rear-view mirror with Ailes' departure has failed amid the drip-drip-drip of new allegations... | | Wendy Walsh, who alleged harassment and retaliation by O'Reilly in an interview with the NYT, but has not sought a settlement payout, held a press conference on Monday morning with lawyer Lisa Bloom by her side. "My voice is not for sale," Walsh said... here's a video excerpt of her remarks... | | The new HR chief at Fox News, Kevin Lord, sent an internal memo urging employees "to report inappropriate behavior," per the NYT. "Particularly in light of some of the accounts published over the last few days, I wanted to re-emphasize the message we have been conveying at our training sessions for several months..." | | Jon Favreau on Monday's episode of "Pod Save America:" "Fox is a garbage organization that protects sexual harassers." Jon Lovett added a comment intended for Chris Wallace and Shep Smith: "You guys have got to look in the mirror, because you're part of something f---ing evil." | | | Ken Tucker's reaction to Sunday's show | | Yahoo TV critic Ken Tucker writes: "The CNN Reliable Sources coverage included chyrons that read, 'Why Does Bill O'Reilly Still Have a Job?' and 'Will Bill O'Reilly Face an Ad Boycott?' Of the latter, I wonder: Has TV news learned nothing from the last presidential campaign? If Trump got elected after the Access Hollywood tape surfaced, there's no way advertisers are going to grow a conscience..." | | | No new comment from O'Reilly | | Last night I asked: Will O'Reilly say anything about the Times story on Monday's "Factor?" Answer: No, he did not, as Tom Kludt notes in this story.
But at the end of the broadcast, O'Reilly brought up his previous commitment to donate the proceeds from his children's book (which came out last November) to an Arizona charity. "Today we sent a very significant check, hundreds of thousands of dollars, to Child Help. Thanks to you [for] buying 'Give Please a Chance.'" | | The network declined to comment on Walsh or Roginsky... | | I made a mistake in last night's letter. I said the title of O'Reilly's next book is "Old School." Actually the book came out last week while I was on vacation. "Old School" -- which is about the "concentrated effort to tear that school down" -- is #4 on Amazon's best selling books list... | | | Ailes' house back in the headlines | | There were anonymously sourced news stories last fall saying that Ailes had bought a huge oceanfront home in Palm Beach. Now the Palm Beach Daily News has confirmed this through public records. Ailes is the "buyer behind the trust that paid $36 million in September" for the furnished, never-lived-in house, the paper said Monday... | | -- NPR is launching "Up First," a "10-minute weekday morning news podcast built off the top news" from "Morning Edition," Shan Wang reports... (NiemanLab)
-- Joining the WashPost: Eric Rich has been named the editor of its new "rapid-response investigative team..."
-- Leaving the WashPost: Jeff Guo is joining Vox to cover "the intersection of politics, policy, & media..."
-- With Julia Whiston stepping down, the W.H. Correspondents' Association is appointing a new executive director: Steve Thomma... | | | What Oath is -- and what it isn't | | "What do you get when you combine two of the most iconic Internet brands? One incredibly bland corporate name," CNNMoney's Seth Fiegerman writes.
The name is Oath... it'll be the new name of the division housing Yahoo and AOL's media properties. But the Yahoo name isn't going away. Daniel Roberts of Yahoo Finance says some of the other headlines about this news "have been extremely misleading. 'Say goodbye to AOL and Yahoo,' reads a headline at The Week. 'Yahoo to be renamed Oath,' says a headline at The Hollywood Reporter. Those are incorrect."
Roberts says "think of Oath like Vox Media" or Gizmodo Media, i.e. the umbrella name for a publisher with a bunch of brands... | | Kara Swisher says it's over: "According to sources, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will not be continuing with the new company." More: "Terms of Mayer's departure are still being worked through, and her not staying on is not much of a surprise. But it will be interesting to see if she gets the full pay-out she is owed..." | | | The "News Integrity Initiative" | | Poynter's Ben Mullin writes: "A global coalition of tech leaders, academic institutions, nonprofits and funders, including Facebook, Mozilla and Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark, on Monday announced a $14 million initiative to combat declining trust in the news media and advance news literacy..." | | The quirkiest show on cable news, Fox's "Red Eye," is being cancelled. The comedic talk show will have its final airing "this Friday night at 3 a.m.," TVNewser's Chris Ariens reports. "Host Tom Shillue and co-host Andy Levy are expected to stay on with Fox News." Fun (?) fact: a "Red Eye" appearance back in the mid 2000s was my sole time as a guest on Fox News... I wish I could find the tape... | | Sydney Ember writes: "The New York Times continues to add to the ranks of its top newsroom editors. On Monday, the company announced that Sam Dolnick" -- a fifth generation member of the Ochs/Sulzberger family who's been leading initiatives like VR and podcasts lately -- is becoming "an assistant editor on the masthead." He'll "lead the charge" toward new platforms.
Other new members of the Times masthead include Rebecca Blumenstein and Carolyn Ryan... | | | CNN's newest political analyst: April Ryan | | Playbook broke the news on Monday morning: American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan will now be a regular on CNN... a political analyst...
>> Three other new CNN analysts were named on Monday: Lisa Monaco, John Kirby and Michael Hayden... | | | Comedy Central orders "The President Show" | | Sandra Gonzalez emails: A few days after a marketing stunt that baffled some viewers, Comedy Central has unveiled its newest late-night show: "The President Show," a weekly series that will show Trump "bypassing the crooked media by hosting a late-night show direct from the Oval Office."
At the center of the show will be Upright Citizens Brigade performer and instructor Anthony Atamanuik, who's been credited with an A+ Trump impersonation. Former "Colbert Report" writer Peter Grosz will play VP Mike Pence. It premieres Friday, April 27...
-- More: WashPost's Elahe Izadi says it's a "dip back into 'Colbert Report' territory" for Comedy Central... "by centering an entire show on lampooning a political character..." | | -- Tucker Carlson: "One of the most unlikely comebacks in the annals of cable news?" Kelefa Sanneh has a new profile of Carlson... (The New Yorker)
-- "DailyMailTV, a new daily syndicated series from the team behind Dr. Phil, will launch across the U.S. this fall." It has stations reaching 2/3s of the country on board so far... (Deadline)
-- Via Lisa France: Mike Epps brought a kangaroo on stage during his stand up. The animal didn't appear thrilled and fans weren't either. He has apologized for the incident... | | | Pirro's reality show starts this week | | Brian Lowry emails: Fresh off President Trump urging people to watch her show — and a blistering attack on Paul Ryan — Fox News' Jeanine Pirro will begin serving double duty this Friday, hosting a Fox reality show titled "You the Jury." The unscripted program offers the TV audience the chance to register their "verdicts" on old cases. It is, by happenstance, one of the three new network reality series premiering on April 7, the others being NBC's "First Dates" and ABC's "The Toy Box..." | | Have you watched the "Big Little Lies" finale yet? Jamie and I caught up this evening. I liked it so much that I immediately re-watched part of episode one... just to see how the miniseries started and ended...
So what's next, Lisa France asks -- public mourning? How about a second season? Read her story here... | | | "Reliable Sources" highlights | | | What do you like about this newsletter? What do you dislike? Send your feedback to reliablesources@cnn.com. We appreciate every email. | |  | | We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Check out Five Things for Your New Day, CNN's morning newsletter. Give us five minutes, and we'll brief you on all the news and buzz people will be talking about. | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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