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Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:55 AM Mar 2018

Fox News settles gender discrimination suit with female reporter, her lawyer says

Source: CNN




by Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy
March 8, 2018: 9:11 PM ET

Diana Falzone, a reporter who covered entertainment and issues related to sexual harassment, has settled a lawsuit with Fox News and left the company, her lawyer told CNN Thursday evening.

"We resolved Diana Falzone's case against Fox News and she no longer works there," Nancy Erika Smith, the attorney representing Falzone, told CNN in a statement.

Smith said she could not disclose the terms of the settlement. Neither Falzone nor a spokesperson for Fox News immediately returned a request for comment.

Falzone filed a lawsuit against Fox News in May 2017. In it, she alleged gender discrimination and said she was demoted for writing a column about her struggle with endometriosis, a painful disorder often accompanied by other severe symptoms, including infertility. Fox News had previously denied the allegations in her lawsuit.

Falzone had written in her column that she was "reluctant to share the story" of her battle with the disorder. But she wrote that she ultimately chose to do so after being persuaded by a manager in her doctor's office, who told her, "Many women suffer in silence alone. Please share your story." (Falzone recently wrote on Facebook that she had been told for years the disorder had rendered her infertile, but said that through in vitro fertilization she had become pregnant.)



Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/08/media/fox-news-settlement-diana-falzone/index.html

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