Bill Shine, the former Fox News producer turned executive, who later served as White House communications director under President Trump in 2018-2019, is consulting on Nexstar's NewsNation cable channel, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Shine joined NewsNation ahead of its launch last year (it launched as a primetime news block in September 2020), a spokesperson for Nexstar says.
He is not an employee of the local TV station giant. Last month, Nexstar announced that it planned to rebrand WGN America as NewsNation, positioning it as a "fact-based and unbiased" competitor to cable news channels like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
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