Roger Ailes Signs New Contract to Head Fox News and Stations

Roger Ailes, the creator of the Fox News Channel, has signed a new multiyear contract as chairman and chief executive of Fox News and Fox Business Network and chairman of Fox Television Stations. Ailes’s previous contract with 21st Century Fox, the media giant led by Rupert Murdoch that includes the Fox properties, ran through 2016. A public back and forth over Ailes’s position at 21st Century Fox has played out during the last two weeks since news emerged that Murdoch’s two sons, Lachlan and James, would take on top leadership roles at the company. Ailes reportedly clashed with Lachlan Murdoch about a decade ago as part of broader power struggle that led to Lachlan’s unexpected resignation from his father’s empire in 2005.