Barbara Fedida, the senior vice president of talent relations and business affairs at ABC News is out of a job.The New York Times reports that after Fedida was accused of making inappropriate and racist comments in the workplace to employees, including Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, the Walt Disney company (ABC’s parent company) launched an internal investigation, courtesy of the Proskauer Rose law firm.
But it wasn’t until The Huffington Post published an investigative piece by Yashar Ali, citing 34 anonymous sources discussing Fedida’s racist and toxic behavior did Disney put Fedida on leave.
According to HuffPo, during a 2018 salary negotiation meeting between the network and Roberts, a source witnessed Fedida saying it wasn’t.
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