Shelley Ross is an American television executive producer, former writer and editor at the National Enquirer,[1] former executive producer of ABC News Good Morning America,[2][3][4] and former executive producer at CBS News The Early Show.[5][6][7]

Career

Ross was a segment producer of The Tomorrow Show in 1981. In 2016, she accused her boss, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment shortly after she was hired in 1981.[8]

Ross was a producer for ABC News.[9] For her work on prime time, in 2005, she won a shared Gerald Loeb Award for Television Deadline.[10] Ross was a producer of The Early Show.[11][12]

In September 2021, she accused her previous employee, Chris Cuomo, of sexually harassing her in 2005 during an employee's farewell party at a bar in Manhattan.[9][13][14][15] Stopping short of asking him to be fired from CNN, she said she would "like to see him journalistically repent." Cuomo admitted to the incident and apologized in a statement: "As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it."[16]

References

  1. ↑ Auletta, Ken (1 August 2005). "The Dawn Patrol". The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Maynard, John (15 April 2004). "ABC Sends 'GMA' Producer to Prime Time". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  3. ↑ Robertson, Lori (November 1999). "Making Their Moves". American Journalism Review. Retrieved 27 September 2021. ABC and CBS, also-rans in the morning TV battle for the last four years, take aim at NBC's reigning champion, 'Today.'
  4. ↑ Steinberg, Brian (24 September 2021). "Chris Cuomo Alleged to Have Touched Former ABC News Producer Inappropriately". Variety. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Gough, Paul J. (7 March 2008). "Ross fired from CBS' 'Early Show'". The Hollywood Reporter. AP. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "CBS axes controversial 'Early Show' producer". Reuters. 7 March 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "In Defense of 'Early Show' Producer Shelley Ross". New York. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  8. ↑ Khatchatourian, Maane (2016-08-08). "Veteran TV Producer Shelley Ross Accuses Roger Ailes of Sexual Harassment". Variety. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  9. 1 2 Mullin, Benjamin (2021-09-24). "CNN's Chris Cuomo Accused of Sexually Harassing a Former ABC News Producer". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  10. ↑ "2005 Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on December 16, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2010 – via Internet Archive.
  11. ↑ Carter, Bill (2008-03-01). "Producer May Leave 'Early Show'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  12. ↑ "In Defense of 'Early Show' Producer Shelley Ross". Intelligencer. March 6, 2008. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  13. ↑ Blistein, Jon (2021-09-24). "TV Producer Says Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Her, Apologized to Her Husband First". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  14. ↑ Ross, Shelley (24 September 2021). "Opinion: Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Me. I Hope He'll Use His Power to Make Change". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  15. ↑ "Shelley Ross". HuffPost. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  16. ↑ "Chris Cuomo's Former Boss Accuses Him of Grabbing Her Butt, Offering Bizarre Email Apology Afterwards". Mediaite. 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
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