Former Fox News exec Bill Shine reportedly brought to White House to stop leaks

by Eddie Scarry
June 30, 2018 09:28 AM

Bill Shine, a former longtime senior executive at Fox News, is being tasked with stopping leaks coming out of the White House communications department, according to a report.

Shine, who left Fox last year, will potentially fill the communications director position, which has been vacant since Hope Hicks left the White House in February.

A report in Vanity Fair on Friday said Shine will oversee White House messaging.

"Trump wants Shine to plug the leak-prone communications shop and bring discipline to the White House’s daily messaging," the report said, citing anonymous sources "close to the White House."

“He’s a mechanics guy,” one source said, according to the report. “He can determine when the best day to announce something is to drive the news cycle; or when the White House is doing events how to get the best camera shots.”

After it was reported Wednesday that Shine would be joining the White House, critics noted that he departed from Fox amid scores of sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes, the former CEO of Fox, and others, including host Eric Bolling and anchor Bill O'Reilly.

Ailes died in 2017. Both Bolling and O'Reilly have denied allegations of wrongdoing, yet both are no longer at the network.

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