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It’s been roughly one year since Sarah Scott went to the Screen Actors Guild to report sexual harassment on set. She went to the union just days after an incident with Kip Pardue, her costar in an independent television pilot, in which she alleged he had forced her to touch his penis during a sex … Read more
It was a little before dawn on the last Wednesday in November, and the robin-egg blue of the slowly brightening sky heralded a fine day—good news for NBC as it prepared for the evening’s Christmas- tree-lighting special, hosted again by then- fifty-nine-year-old Today anchor Matt Lauer, at Rockefeller Center, the network’s home. Yet as the crews for … Read more
Tom Brokaw, the retired longtime anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” denied a former colleague’s accusation on Thursday that he tried to kiss and grope her when she was an NBC News correspondent during the 1990s. The former correspondent, Linda Vester, told The Washington Post and Variety that Brokaw, who at 78 is 26 years older than she, twice made … Read more
Today, Joel Clement, the civil servant who filed a whistleblower complaint against the Department of the Interior; and Katherine Atkinson, the attorney from Wilkenfeld, Herendeen & Atkinson representing Joel Clement, released the following statements in response to the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Inspector General’s (IG’s) report on the reassignment of career SES employees.
Press Forward, the new initiative devoted to changing newsroom culture after a wave of sexual harassment allegations rocked the news industry, named an all-star board of advisors Tuesday including CNN’s Jake Tapper and Alisyn Camerota, PBS’ Judy Woodruff and former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel.
Two brave WHA clients told their stories about music executive Charlie Walk to Rolling Stone. Songwriters of North America (SONA) has asked WHA to be available to discuss sexual harassment with its members.
Ari Wilkenfeld is a founding partner at Wilkenfeld, Herendeen & Atkinson and has been a civil rights and employment attorney for more than 20 years. A little more than two weeks ago, NBC fired Matt Lauer after my client provided a confidential complaint about the former “Today” show host of 20 years. Women have come forward in different ways … Read more
Matt Lauer in New York. Ari Wilkenfeld, a longtime civil rights and employment lawyer in Washington, is representing the woman who brought sexual misconduct claims this week against NBC “Today” show host Matt Lauer, fired just days after the allegations were made.Wilkenfeld confirmed to The National Law Journal on Wednesday that he brought the woman’s claims … Read more
Within hours of firing the show’s co-anchor, the network was said to have received more complaints, including one involving a 2001 encounter in his office.
