MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump has appointed former Fox News executive Bill Shine as an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications, the White House said Thursday [7-5-18]. Mr. Shine began working at the White House on Monday [7-2-18], according to an administration official. He will oversee the White House communications office, but won’t take the title of communications director, a job that has been vacant since March. Fox News commentator Sean Hannity, who is close to Mr. Shine and to President Donald Trump, played a key role in orchestrating the process, a person familiar with the matter said. Mr. Trump discussed the job of communications director with Mr. Shine in March, but the former Fox executive wasn’t interested at the time, people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Shine, among the longest-serving executives at Fox News, left the company last year in one of a string of high-profile departures amid a sexual-harassment controversy that led the company to part ways with its former chairman and chief executive, the late Roger Ailes, and prime-time star anchor Bill O’Reilly—who had both at times advised the president. Mr. Shine was never accused of harassment. In lawsuits, some Fox News employees and former executives have alleged that Mr. Shine ignored complaints of bad behavior by Mr. Ailes and enabled an environment that was hostile to women.”
– Rebecca Ballhaus, “Donald Trump Names Ex-Fox News Executive Bill Shine to Oversee White House Communications,” The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2018 1:43 pm