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Katie Couric Says She Has ‘No Relationship' With Matt Lauer, Calls Scandal ‘Devastating and Disgusting'
Katie Couric and Matt Lauer spent nine years together as co-anchors on TODAY, but Lauer’s firing in 2017 for inappropriate sexual conduct led to the end of their relationship, Couric told TODAY on Tuesday.
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Lauer Says Ronan Farrow's Work on Him Was Shoddy and Biased
Former “Today” anchor Matt Lauer has accused Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ronan Farrow of failing to corroborate charges that were made against him in the 2019 book “Catch and Kill.”
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Gretchen Carlson Wants to Speak Freely About Fox News Tenure
When Gretchen Carlson heard that NBC News was considering letting people out of their non-disclosure agreements involving alleged sexual misconduct at the network, she couldn’t help but think of the NDA she signed with Fox News before her departure three years ago. “It would be nice to be able to be able to tell my full story,” Carlson said. She’s...
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NBCUniversal Releases Ex-Staff From Sexual Harassment Confidentiality Agreements
Former NBC News employees who signed nondisclosure agreements with the network and believe they experienced sexual harassment are free to tell their stories, NBCUniversal said in a new statement Friday. The statement was first reported by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow minutes before an interview with Ronan Farrow, the investigative journalist who chronicles his reporting on sexual misconduct allegations against former film...
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Ronan Farrow Is Engaged to ‘Pod Save America' Host Jon Lovett
Ronan Farrow is an engaged man. Amid the release of his highly anticipated and headline-making book, “Catch and Kill,” the investigative journalist has also unveiled a bit of personal news. He and Jon Lovett are engaged, E! News has learned. Farrow shared the story of his proposal in the book, explaining that he had used a draft to creatively pop...
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Matt Lauer's Wife Annette Roque Files for Divorce
Matt Lauer and Annette Roque are officially ending their 20-year marriage Roque filed divorce papers in a New York court on Tuesday, a year and a half after their split, E! News has confirmed. She and the disgraced former “Today” show co-anchor share three children: sons Jack, 18, and Thijs, 12, and daughter Romy, 15.
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Study Finds 1 in 3 Executives Changed Behavior After #MeToo
Although media coverage of the #MeToo movement has typically focused on public figures, the movement has also reshaped how companies handle and work to prevent sexual harassment allegations on a daily basis, with varying degrees of success, according to a recent study. An increase in sexual assault allegations has caused company leadership to reconsider how employer and employee behavior affects...
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NBC Says No Culture of Harassment in Its News Division
NBC’s internal investigation following Matt Lauer’s firing says it doesn’t believe there is a culture of sexual harassment at the news division and that current news executives weren’t aware of Lauer’s behavior until the complaint that doomed him. Investigators also said more needs to be done to ensure that the more than 2,000 employees at NBC News can talk about...
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Tom Brokaw Denies Sexually Harassing Former NBC News Colleague
Former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw, denied a former colleague’s accusation on Thursday that he tried to kiss and grope her when she was an NBC News correspondent during the 1990s. Linda Vester, the ex correspondent, told The Washington Post and Variety that Brokaw, who is 26 years her senior, made unwanted advances toward her on two occasions, in...
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Katie Couric Recounts Facing Sexist Attitudes, Comments
Veteran TV journalist Katie Couric says she has faced sexist attitudes in her career, such as demeaning descriptions and “gross comments.” Couric spoke Thursday at consumer products maker Procter & Gamble’s Cincinnati headquarters in a forum on the state of women in the workplace. The forum comes amid a wave of sexual misconduct claims against prominent figures in entertainment, politics...
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‘Tonight': Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on Finding TODAY Success After Matt Lauer
Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb talk about becoming the first female co-anchors in the history of NBC’s “TODAY” show in the wake of Matt Lauer’s departure, their first broadcast horror stories and heading to South Korea for the Olympics.
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Ann Curry ‘Not Surprised' by Allegations Against Matt Lauer, Says ‘Verbal Harassment' Was Pervasive
Journalist Ann Curry said she was not surprised by allegations of sexual misconduct against her former “Today” show co-anchor Matt Lauer. A “climate of verbal harassment” existed when she was at the helm of NBC’s morning news show, she said. Curry, appearing on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday in her first televised interview since the seven-time Emmy winner signed off “Today”...
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Katie Couric Breaks Silence on Matt Lauer: ‘I Had No Idea'
Katie Couric, who was Matt Lauer’s “Today” co-host for several years, broke her silence Saturday on sexual misconduct allegations against him. Couric told People magazine: “I had no idea this was going on during my tenure or after I left.” She departed NBC in 2006 to anchor the “CBS Evening News” and has been criticized for her silence in the...
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‘#SavannahHodaTODAY': Hoda Kotb Named Co-Anchor of ‘Today' Show
Hoda Kotb, co-host of the fourth hour of the “Today” show for about a decade, has been promoted to co-anchor of the show, her colleague Savannah Guthrie announced Tuesday. She fills the spot formerly occupied by Matt Lauer, who was terminated from NBC News in late November after a colleague reported inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. “Hoda, you are...
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Sex Misconduct Cases Spur Rethinking of Statutes of Limitations
Forcibly touching another person without consent for sexual gratification is usually both a crime and a civil wrong, but many of the recent sexual misconduct allegations against prominent men will never see a civil or criminal courtroom, NBC News reported. This is because they happened a long time ago and are outside legal statutes of limitations, a period of time...
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The Year in Google Searches: Monkey Selfies, Eclipse, Bitcoin, Lauer
Matt Lauer. Bitcoin. DACA. Monkey selfies. Jeremy Lin’s hair. Do-it-yourself eclipse glasses. Tom Petty’s death. National anthem protests in the NFL. And “Cash Me Outside.” These were some of the people, topics and memes that trended to the top of Google searches in 2017. The search terms reflected the United States in upheaval over sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men,...
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Monkey Selfies, Eclipse, Bitcoin, Lauer Top Google in 2017
Matt Lauer. Bitcoin. DACA. Monkey selfies. Jeremy Lin’s hair. Do-it-yourself eclipse glasses. Tom Petty’s death. National anthem protests in the NFL. And “Cash Me Outside.” These were some of the people, topics and memes that trended to the top of Google searches in 2017. The search terms reflected the United States in upheaval over sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men,...
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Facebook's Sandberg Warns of Backlash Against Women
Sheryl Sandberg warned of a potential backlash against women and urged companies to put into place clear policies on how allegations of sexual harassment are handled.
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On ‘SNL,' Trump Is Visited By Christmas Ghosts Mike Flynn, Vladimir Putin, Billy Bush, Hillary Clinton
The cold open of “Saturday Night Live” focused on the latest developments in the Russia investigation, as well as the sexual misconduct allegations against former “Today” anchor Matt Lauer. In the sketch, Alec Baldwin reprised his role as President Donald Trump, who was seen in his office fuming over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to lying to...
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Playwright Israel Horovitz Faces Harassment Allegations
Award-winning playwright-screenwriter Israel Horovitz, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment, has departed from the Gloucester Stage Company.