Who Will Lead Fox News in the Post-Ailes Era?

That's the billion dollar question

What is Fox News without Roger Ailes? A question once only whispered in the cable news giant's headquarters on Sixth Avenue in New York has grown to be the pressing query in media circles. The man who created the Fox News brand in 1996, and aggressively built his network into the No. 1 cable news outlet and the voice of the conservative political movement, fell from his throne in a matter of days.

Ailes' reign was upended on July 6, when Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued the Fox News chairman and CEO for sexual harassment, accusing him of ignoring her complaints of harassment on the set of the network's top-rated morning show, Fox & Friends, and also propositioning the star himself.

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