Two of Tucker Carlson’s former show’s top producers have left Fox News, following the recent fallout from the station’s benching of Mr. Carlson.
Senior producer and former editor-in-chief of Tucker Carlson Tonight Alexander MacAskill wrote on Instagram that Thursday was his last day at the station. Thomas Fox, the show’s senior editorial producer, also retired this week, according to two people familiar with the move.
McAskill and Fox had been in talks to leave the station before Tuesday, when Chiron on Fox News called President Biden a “wannabe dictator,” one of the people said. It is said that
In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Carlson said Chiron was posted by the station’s producer and has since retired. Carlson did not identify MacAskill by name, but listed facts about the person matching MacAskill, including how long he had worked with the network.
After Chiron was installed, Carlson said, “women running the network inside Fox panicked.” “First they scolded the producer for putting the banner on screen. Less than 24 hours later he resigned. He had been at Fox for over a decade.”
A Fox News spokeswoman declined to comment on McCaskill and Fox’s departures. “Chiron was immediately removed and addressed,” the company said in a statement Wednesday.
Fox declined to comment on his resignation during a brief phone call on Friday. MacAskill did not respond to a request for comment.
Former Daily Beast report McCaskill’s resignation was confirmed Thursday in a post on his Instagram. “Today was his last day at Fox,” the post read. “It’s been an amazing decade, but it’s been the best place I’ve ever worked because of the amazing people I’ve met. But the time has come. I asked them to let me go.” And they finally let me go.”
MacAskill and Fox are also named as defendants in a discrimination lawsuit against Fox brought by Abby Grossberg, a former producer of the company who worked briefly on Mr. Carlson’s show.
Grossberg said McCaskill and other producers of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” harassed her, frequently used vulgar derogatory terms when portraying women, and used anti-Semitic language. accused of speaking up and creating a toxic and misogynistic workplace.
Fox News and Grossberg are in settlement talks, according to people familiar with the discussions. CNN report Agree early on the possibility of bilateral agreement.
A lawyer for Grossberg and a Fox News spokeswoman declined to comment on possible talks.
Grossberg also accused Fox News of coercing misleading depositions in a large defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She has since dropped the lawsuit.
Days after Fox settled the Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million, Fox pulled Mr. Carlson off the air. The New York Times reported that Fox leaders are growing concerned about the problems he has posed for the network. Carlson is still under contract with Fox, which has demanded he stop posting videos on Twitter.
A third top member of Carlson’s team also recently left Fox. Charles Cougar, executive producer of Mr. Carlson’s “Tucker Carlson Originals” show on streaming service Fox Nation, left the channel in May, according to a LinkedIn profile. Cougar declined to comment.
