Andrea Tantaros

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Andreana Kostantina Tantaros (born December 30, 1978 in Allentown , Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American Conservative television presenter for the Fox News Channel and author, as well as a former columnist, radio host and campaign manager for various Republican Party politicians .

Life

Tantaros grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania , where she attended Parkland High School. Her parents own restaurants in the Lehigh Valley .

After attending high school, Tantaros studied at Lehigh University , where she graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and French. As early as 1999, she was an intern in the press office for Pat Buchanan's campaign for president. This was followed by an internship at CNN telecast Crossfire .

From 2002 to 2005 Tantaros worked as a spokeswoman for the House Republican Conference (membership organization of all Republican MPs in the House of Representatives ) in Washington, DC She then worked in Westchester County of New York as Communication Director for the then District Attorney Jeanine Pirro , who was responsible for the Republican nomination ran for the New York Senate election in 2006. She was also Communication Director for Bill Weld's 2006 campaign for governor of New York. She also worked in the press office of Congressman Thomas M. Reynolds ' 2006 re-election campaign , Republican policy advisor Richard Wirthlin, and deputy press secretary for then-Congressman Pat Toomey .

Since 2007 Tantaros has appeared regularly on the Fox News Channel (FNC), in 2010 she became a permanent employee there and moderated the program The Five until the beginning of 2015 , and from May 2014 the program Outnumbered . From 2009 to 2012 she published a column in the New York Daily News . From 2008 to 2010 and 2011, respectively, she served as vice president for Sloane and Company in Manhattan, where they say she specializes in crisis communications , health care and public affairs. From January 2012 to 2013 she hosted her own radio talk show, The Andrea Tantaros Show , on the Talk Radio Network , which was three hours long and was broadcast by Laura Ingraham in the former broadcast period .

Since April 25, 2016 Tantaros no longer appears in the FNC; According to an FNC announcement due to contractual circumstances. Her book Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable was published on April 26th by HarperCollins -Imprint Broadside Books. On August 8, 2016, Tantaros announced through her lawyer that she had been sexually molested several times since August 12, 2014 by then FNC CEO Roger Ailes ; Tantaros said her denials to Ailes and formal complaints about high-level harassment at FNC led to her transfer from The Five to Outnumbered and her complete suspension. On August 22, handed Tantaros through their lawyers before the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan a civil suit for sexual harassment and unlawful interference against Fox News, Ailes, officers Fox News employees Bill Shine , Dianne Brandi, Irena Briganti and Suzanne Scott with Claims for damages of at least $ 49 million. The lawsuit alleges, "Fox News masquerades as the defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes it operates like a sex-driven, Playboy Mansion- like sect, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny." Alongside Ailes, Bill O ' Reilly , Scott Brown , Fox News journalist John Roberts and Dean Cain accused of making unwanted advances against Tantaros. Commentators put Tantaros' allegations in line with those of Gretchen Carlson and other former Fox News female employees.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jeff Miller: Hillary Hunting? , in: The Morning Call, October 23, 2005.
  2. ↑ a b c d Biographical entry on foxnews.com ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foxnews.com
  3. ^ Lehigh University: Campus Connection - Profile Andrea Tantaros '01 ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke: Andrea Tantaros, Fox's New 'It' Girl , in: The New York Observer , February 12, 2013.
  5. ↑ Chris Ariens: Andrea Tantaros Moves Off 'The Five' , in: TVNewser , February 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Fox News Channel co-host Andrea Tantaros to speak May 12 for UNT Kuehne Speaker Series , University of North Texas , March 12, 2015
  7. ↑ Authors entry of Tantaros on nydailynews.com
  8. ↑ Archived pages from sloanepr.com: last archived profile of Tantaros ( Memento from May 9th 2010 in the Internet Archive ), first archived overview of the management ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), last archived overview of the management with mention of Tantaros ( Memento from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ Eric Hananoki: Fox allows Tantaros to attack health care without disclosing ties , Media Matters for America , February 3, 2010.
  10. ↑ Brendan Gauthier: Fox News host Andrea Tantaros quietly pulled from daytime show over contract “issues” , in Salon , April 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062351869/tied-up-in-knots
  12. ↑ Gabriel Sherman: Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros Says She Was Taken Off the Air After Making Sexual-Harassment Claims Against Roger Ailes , New York Magazine , August 8, 2016.
  13. ↑ In the original: “Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency, and misogyny.”, Quoted from Jim Dwyer: Andrea Tantaros of Fox News Claims Retaliation for Sex Harassment Complaints , New York Times , August 22, 2016.
  14. ↑ Kyle Blaine: Andrea Tantaros Names O'Reilly, Scott Brown In Sexual Harassment Suit Against Fox , in: BuzzFeed News , August 23, 2016.
  15. ^ Judd Legum: The Explosive New Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Bill O'Reilly, Detailed , in: Think Progress , August 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Tantaros, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tantaros, Andreana Kostantina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Allentown , Pennsylvania , USA