Roger Ailes
Television executive and media consultant who shaped conservative media and advised Republican presidents.
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His television career began at KYW-TV in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he worked on The Mike Douglas Show.[1] Ailes won Emmy Awards in 1967 and 1968 as executive producer of that show.[1] Ailes was married three times, including to Elizabeth Tilson on February 14, 1998, with whom he had one son named Zachary.[2] Ailes spent his childhood in Warren, Ohio, where his father Robert Eugene Ailes worked as a factory maintenance foreman and his mother was Donna Marie.[3]
Ohio University granted Ailes a degree in 1962; his major was radio and television, and for two years he managed the student station WOUB.[4] Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush each received media consulting from Ailes.[5] News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch brought Ailes on in 1996 to serve as Fox News' CEO.[6]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Roger Eugene Ailes
- Born
- 15 May 1940
- Birthplace
- Warren, Ohio, U.S.
- Died
- 18 May 2017
- Place of death
- Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
- Political party
- Republican
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Ohio University (BA)
Facts from the source article.
What the cited sources add
Andrea Tantaros stated that she complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes's inappropriate sexual behavior toward her.[7] According to Tantaros's account, Ailes began harassing her on August 12, 2014, asking her to do "the twirl" so he could see her figure.[7] The same article noted that Ailes wrote a 300-page memo for President Nixon in 1970 outlining a media plan.[8] Four hundred rabbis signed an open letter calling on Rupert Murdoch to sanction Ailes and Glenn Beck for inappropriate references to Nazis and the Holocaust.[9]
Elizabeth Ailes, his wife, used the Drudge Report to release a statement announcing his death, as noted in The Guardian's obituary.[10] The Palm Beach County medical examiner determined that a fall in the bathroom of his Florida home caused the subdural hematoma that killed him, according to the same Guardian report.[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Roger Ailes" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bernstein, "Roger Ailes, Fox News Founder Who Was Forced Out by Scandal, Dies at 77", Variety, May 18, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Roger Ailes" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Our publisher", The Putnam County News & Recorder; "The Putnam County Courier history", Putnam County Courier; Simpson, "Inside the Paranoid World of Fox News's Roger Ailes", January 8, 2014; Sherman, "Citizen Ailes", New York, January 8, 2014; Trotter, "Fox News Boss Roger Ailes Treats Cops as His Personal Minions", Gawker, September 15, 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Roger Ailes" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Current Biography", H.W. Wilson, 1989, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Roger Ailes" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sherman, "The Loudest Voice In The Room: How The Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News — And Divided A Country.", Random House, 2014, p. 7–8; Sherman, p.15; "Ohio University to Rename Newsroom for FOX News' Roger Ailes", April 22, 2008; "Roger Ailes's BA", Museum of Broadcast Communications (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Roger Ailes" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Grynbaum, "Fox Settles With Gretchen Carlson Over Roger Ailes Sex Harassment Claims", The New York Times, September 6, 2016; Sherman, "Andrea Tantaros Says She Made Harassment Claims Against Ailes, Was Taken Off Air", Intelligencer, August 8, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Roger Ailes" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brancaccio, "Marketplace: News Archives", October 7, 1996 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Sherman, "Andrea Tantaros Says She Made Harassment Claims Against Ailes, Was Taken Off Air", Intelligencer, August 8, 2016. facts only, no text reused. nymag.com
- Zelizer, "How Roger Ailes changed the media – and America", CNN, May 18, 2017. facts only, no text reused. cnn.com
- Pilkington, "Rabbis warn Rupert Murdoch: Fox News and Glenn Beck 'using' Holocaust", The Guardian, January 27, 2011. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
- Holpuch, "Roger Ailes, former Fox News chairman and CEO, dies age 77", The Guardian, May 18, 2017. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Roger Ailes (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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