Jennifer Eckhart: Last News

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJennifer Eckhart is launching a second act after leaving Fox Business last year: The former TV producer and journalist is hosting “Reinvented,” a weekly podcast series in which she interviews people who have overcome serious obstacles on their path to success.“Reinvented With Jen Eckhart” is set to debut Aug. 23, with Grammy-winning artist Sean Paul as her first guest.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund is supporting a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Fox News and several of its anchors, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.The organization — which was founded in the wake of the #MeToo movement — is providing PR support to Cathy Areu, a former unpaid Fox News contributor who alleges she faced a “barrage of sexual harassment” at the network.Fox News has pushed back aggressively on Areu’s claims, releasing messages that appeared to contradict her initial account and threatening to seek legal sanctions if her allegations were not withdrawn.Areu and Jennifer Eckhart, a former associate producer at the network, filed suit on July 20 in federal court in New York.

Former Fox Business producer Jennifer Eckhart and co-plaintiff Cathy Areu filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging sexual misconduct against Fox News talent years after similar accusations led to the demise of the late CEO Roger Ailes. Eckhart has accused former White House correspondent and anchor Ed Henry of rape.

Ted Johnson A day after she and a frequent Fox News guest filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the network and some of its major personalities, former Fox Business associate producer Jennifer Eckhart appeared on CBS This Morning to talk about her claims, including that she was “paralyzed with fear” while working at the network and that she believed that news anchor Ed Henry “had the power to destroy me.”Fox News has pushed back against some of the claims she makes in her lawsuit (read it here) and said that it took “swift action” in terminating Henry on July 1 after it learned of her claims against him. Henry contends that his relationship with her was consensual.

former Fox News correspondent Ed Henry of raping her while they both worked at the network. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday, claims Henry «performed sadistic acts on her without her consent that left her injured, bruised and battered with bloody wrists» after placing handcuffs on her.  A second plaintiff in the lawsuit, frequent Fox News guest Cathy Areu, also accused Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Howard Kurtz of harassment.

Two women – including one former Fox News employee – are accusing some of the network’s most popular on-air anchors of sexual harassment. According to numerous reports, a new federal lawsuit that was filed on Monday accuses Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Howard Kurtz, Gianno Caldwell, and the recently-fired Ed Henry of sexual misconduct that ranges from inappropriate comments to rape.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“We’re off last week, it’s good to be back,” declared Tucker Carlson at the outset tonight of his Fox News Channel show.And if viewers or critics were expecting the top-rated host to dive into controversies like a new lawsuit that alleges sexual harassment and retaliation by Carlson, they were barking up the wrong cable news tree. Neither that just filed complaint from former Fox Business Network associate producer Jennifer Eckhart and former FNC guest Cathy Areu nor one of Tucker Carlson Tonight’s top and now ex-writers being exposed on July 11 for frequently posting racist, sexist and homophobic comments on a legal message board made the polemic cut on FNC on Monday.

Longtime Fox News commentator Cathy Areu has joined forces with former Fox News employee Jennifer Eckhart to sue the network, claiming it didn’t take enough action over claims of sexual harassment and retaliation by some of the network’s top stars. In lawsuit paperwork filed on July 20 and obtained by HollywoodLife.com, Jennifer claimed that fired anchor Ed Henry sexually assaulted her on several occasions. Cathy is alleging that Ed sent her lewd photos and messages. She also claims that popular news hosts Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz also propositioned her for sex, and retaliated against her when she rebuffed their alleged advances.

Journalist Jennifer Eckhart is not letting “fear of retaliation, victim shaming and further attacks” stop her from speaking out. This is what the former Fox Nation personality wrote on Twitter on July 20, the day she filed a lawsuit with co-plaintiff Cathy Areu (another journalist) against the Fox News Network and some of the biggest names to appear on the conservative news outlet: Ed Henry, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz. In the complaint’s preliminary statement, Eckhart and Areu accuse Fox News of continuing to “protect and reward perpetrators of sexual harassment” and “putting such persons in positions of power from which they can subject women to sexual misconduct, sexual assault and, in the case of Ms. Eckhart, rape.”

another sexual misconduct lawsuit, this time naming hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and the recently fired Ed Henry. The sex trafficking, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation lawsuit was filed Monday morning, on behalf of former Fox News associate producer Jennifer Eckhart and network guest Cathy Areu. Eckhart claims she was raped by former White House chief correspondent Ed Henry, who was fired in June as a result of the charge.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticTucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a sudden vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of alleged misconduct at the now Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace-run outlet.“It is widely documented in the public record that Fox News has not only cultivated and fostered sexual harassment and misconduct, but has consistently accepted and rewarded it,” says a sex trafficking, sexual Harassment, gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit from Jennifer Eckhart and Cathy Areu filed today against the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet, its former reporter and