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The Co-President of Fox News Channel Bill Shine has resigned on 1^st May 2017. It has been considered the latest high-ranking removal from the conservative news channel. The acting CEO of the network Rupert Murdoch has confirmed the resignation of Shine in an email and said, “Most of us know that Bill was respected and liked by everyone at Fox News, and nobody can be his alternate”. Murdoch also confirmed that Suzanne Scott will be the new president of programming division of the network and Jay Wallace will be the president for news division. Point to be noted that Shine supposedly asked from sons of Murdoch (Lachlan Co-chairman and James CEO of Fox News) to issue a statement to support him regarding the recent negative press activities of the network.

It is important that Shine has resigned 9 months after the former chair of the network Roger Ailes performed the similar act of resignation due to a number of allegations regarding sexual harassment. Shine had supposedly been named in more than 4 lawsuits blaming Ailes for involving in harassing and discrimination behavior. The former host Andrea Tantaros said in a lawsuit that Shine & other executives in the company used some tools & computer/telephony, allied media, social media and secret scrutiny against her, but the attorneys of Fox network have rejected the allegations. The top-rated commentator of Fox News Bill O’Reilly also left the network on 19^th April 2017 due to a heap of sexual harassment settlements and his show lost at least half advertisers within a week.