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Trump named Shine to be assistant to the president and deputy
chief of staff for communications, a job that has been vacant
since Hope Hicks, the president's campaign confidante, left in
February, the White House said in a statement.
Shine resigned in May 2017 as co-president of Fox News Channel
in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal at the cable channel.
Although not accused of harassment, Shine was named in a number
of lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct and accused of not doing
more to prevent it. One plaintiff also claimed Shine
demonstrated an obsession with race, NBC News reported last
year, adding that Shine had denied all allegations against him.
Hicks was the third communications director of the Trump White
House, following Mike Dubke, who held the post for about three
months, and Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired after just 10 days
in the job following obscene comments he made in an interview
with the New Yorker magazine.
Shine had been with Fox News since its inception more than 20
years earlier. His departure came during a scandal that led to
the ouster of Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and top-rated news
host Bill O'Reilly.
Ailes was facing sexual harassment allegations, and one report
said Fox and O'Reilly had paid out $13 million to settle
harassment claims by five women.
Former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly, who left the channel to join NBC
News, was one of Ailes' accusers and detailed his behavior in a
best-selling book. Ailes, who died last year, denied the
allegations against him, as has O'Reilly.
(Reporting by Eric Walsh and David Alexander; Editing by James
Dalgleish and Tom Brown)
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