Fox News Creates Workplace Council to Settle Harassment Suit

Conduct of Fox News is potential threat in deal for Sky Plc
Workplace environment, minority recruiting part of mandate

Pedestrians pass in front of signage outside Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. headquarters in New York, on May 3, 2017. — Pedestrians pass in front of signage outside Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. headquarters in New York, on May 3, 2017.
Photographer: Alexander F. Yuan/Bloomberg

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By Anousha Sakoui and Christie Smythe

November 20, 2017 at 7:59 PM UTC

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November 20, 2017 at 10:28 PM UTC

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21st Century Fox Inc. agreed to create a workplace council at its embattled Fox News channel and will receive a $90 million insurance payment as part of a deal settling shareholder litigation over sex-harassment scandals at the network.

The conduct of Fox News has become a threat to 21st Century Fox’s efforts to acquire full ownership of Sky Plc, one of Europe’s biggest pay-TV providers. The deal is the latest step in the company’s attempt to address reporting and oversight failures that allowed alleged sexual misconduct by its chief of its news operations, the now-deceased Roger Ailes, and others to continue without the board being aware.