The accusation prompting his firing was lodged last Thursday by a former colleague who is represented by New York City attorney Douglas Wigdor. Henry was removed from the White House and politics team and reassigned to the general Washington bureau. Then-Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was outraged because he believed news of the affair would prevent Henry from pressing the Clinton campaign about former President Bill Clinton's marital infidelities and alleged misconduct, several Fox News journalists told NPR at the time. In 2016, he was sidelined from covering Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign after tabloids disclosed his extramarital relationship with a Las Vegas hostess.
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Henry, 48, joined the network in 2011 from CNN and became Fox's chief White House correspondent. She did not address the characterizations of his behavior provided to NPR by several former colleagues. Henry "is confident that he will be vindicated after a full hearing in an appropriate forum," his attorney Catherine Foti wrote. Several former colleagues tell NPR that Henry repeatedly pursued younger female staffers during his time at Fox.Īn attorney for Henry sent a statement to NPR on Wednesday night saying he denied the allegations cited by Fox in its announcement. Numerous executives and on-air stars had been forced out after facing a blizzard of sexual harassment accusations in recent years. NPR has learned that Henry was given more prestigious roles by the network despite a colleague's warning to top executives that doing so could damage Fox's efforts at reforming its workplace culture.
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Henry's co-host on America's Newsroom, Sandra Smith, informed the show's audience earlier Wednesday morning. The Fox News Channel has fired one of its leading news anchors, Ed Henry, following an outside investigation of "willful sexual misconduct in the workplace."įox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace called the situation "a very serious matter" in an internal memo sent to staffers earlier Wednesday and shared with NPR and other news outlets. Fox News has fired former anchor Ed Henry (left), shown standing with Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt in September 2019.