After rumors he might retire or be forced out, Fox News chairman and co-founder Roger Ailes has signed a new contract to lead the network until at least 2016, said NYMag.com. The former Republican strategist, whose salary last year was $21.1 million, will get at least $30 million under the new deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., sources said. Ailes, 72, helped launch Fox News in 1996, and has turned it into the nation’s most-watched cable news station, with estimated profits of $1 billion this year. Some of Murdoch’s children reportedly have complained that Ailes is too partisan.
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