21st Century Fox has settled racial and gender discrimination lawsuits involving 18 current and former employees for about $10 million, The New York Times reports.
Cases settled include a class action racial discrimination lawsuit Fox News anchor Kelly Wright and employees in the accounting department filed in 2017, as well as a race, gender, and pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed in 2016 by a former reporter at the Fox 5 affiliate in New York and a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a Fox News Radio reporter in 2017. Fox News denied all of the allegations.
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