Walt Disney fired senior ABC News executive Barbara Fedida after an investigation confirmed allegations that she made insensitive and racist remarks about colleagues at the network
Walt Disney Co. fired senior ABC News executive Barbara Fedida after an investigation confirmed allegations that she made insensitive and racist remarks about colleagues at the network.
In an email to staff, Peter Rice, the Disney senior executive with oversight of ABC News, said the investigation revealed that Ms. Fedida, the senior vice president of talent relations and business affairs for the unit, made “unacceptable racially insensitive comments” and managed “in a rough manner.”
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