Ed Henry Off Fox News Following Tabloid Story

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Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry is off Fox News following a story in weekly tabloid In Touch Weekly that he was having an affair with a Las Vegas hostess.

Henry joined the network in 2011 from CNN, where he had been senior White House correspondent and congressional correspondent since 2004 after working at Roll Call as a senior editor. He is also former chief political analyst for WMAL (AM) Washington, as well as a former political analyst for C-SPAN and WUSA-TV.

“We recently became aware of Ed’s personal issues and he’s taking some time off to work things out," the network told B&C in a statement.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.