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Fox News co-president Bill Shine is out at Fox News. The move comes as Shine was due back on Monday after two days out of the office for a pre-planned long weekend.

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00:00Fox News co-president Bill Schein is out at Fox News. The move comes as Schein was due back on

00:06Monday after two days out of the office for a pre-planned long weekend. 21st Century Fox and

00:11Fox News executive chairman Rupert Murdoch made the announcement on Monday via a brief email to

00:17Fox News staffers, saying,

00:18Sadly, Bill Schein resigned today. I know Bill was respected and liked by everybody at Fox News.

00:25We will all miss him. Schein has been accused of covering up incidents of sexual harassment

00:30by Roger Ailes, his former boss who was ousted from the network last summer after Gretchen

00:35Carlson's lawsuit against him. Since Ailes' abrupt departure in summer 2016, Schein has served as

00:41co-president of Fox News Channel alongside Jack Abernethy. But his roots at the company are much

00:46deeper, as was his work with Bill O'Reilly. Schein had been with FNC since its 1996 launch.

00:52He first served as senior vice president of programming, ultimately becoming senior executive

00:57vice president before his current expanded role. Schein was named in former Fox News personality

01:02Andrea Tantaros' lawsuit against network executives, which claimed that Fox News operated

01:07like a sex-fueled Playboy Mansion-like cult. Schein has his defenders at the channel, though,

01:13and they describe him as a friendly executive who rose through the ranks. Sean Hannity, who is a

01:18friend and colleague of Schein's, took to Twitter on April 27 to defend the network co-president,

01:23fearing the end of the FNC as we know it without Schein. Rupert Murdoch took Schein and Abernethy

01:29to lunch on April 24 for what appeared to be a public show of support. But since then, the pressure

01:34has only mounted on Schein. Most recently, his name came up in a class-action racial discrimination

01:39lawsuit, led by Fox News anchor Kelly Wright. And sources told The Hollywood Reporter last

01:44week that the Murdochs had quietly begun to put out feelers for a new head of Fox News,

01:48preferably a woman. Now, following Schein's exit, Suzanne Scott has become president of

01:54programming and Jay Wallace has been promoted to president of news. Schein's departure is the

02:00fourth big exit to rock Fox News since last year. For more on this story, check out THR.com.

02:05I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.

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