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   Fedida reportedly made disparaging comments about Sunny Hostin   
   and Robin Roberts   
      
   A top ABC News executive has been fired after being placed on   
   administrative leave over racist remarks she reportedly made   
   about Black employees.   
      
   Last month, Huffington Post's Yashar Ali laid out damning   
   accusations against Barbara Fedida, head of ABC News talent, and   
   her treatment of Black journalists at the network including   
   "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts.   
      
   On Monday, Fedida's termination was announced in a memo to ABC   
   News employees from Walt Disney Television chairman and Disney   
   Media Networks co-chairman Peter Rice.   
      
   "The investigation substantiated that Ms. Fedida did make some   
   of the unacceptable racially insensitive comments attributed to   
   her. It also substantiated that Ms. Fedida managed in a rough   
   manner and, on occasion, used crass and inappropriate language."   
   Rice told employees, according to the memo obtained by Fox News.   
   "Lastly, the investigation found no basis for the claims that   
   Ms. Fedida was the subject of dozens of HR complaints and that   
   ABC News spent millions of dollars in confidential settlements   
   related to Ms. Fedida, as alleged in some press accounts.”   
      
   "Although Ms. Fedida made contributions to the organization over   
   the 20-year span of her career, in light of the overall   
   findings, we have determined that she can no longer serve in a   
   leadership role and will not be returning to ABC News," Rice   
   said in the memo.   
      
   According to the memo, Fedida's now-vacant role will be   
   restructured by the network because of the manner in which she   
   "wielded the power" in that position.   
      
   ABC News nor representatives of Fedida immediately responded to   
   Fox News' requests for comment.   
      
   In 2018, during a contentious meeting about renewing Robin   
   Roberts' contract, Fedida reportedly "asked what more Roberts   
   could want and said it wasn’t as if the network was asking   
   Roberts to 'pick cotton.'"   
      
   Fedida also reportedly referred to "The View" co-host Sunny   
   Hostin as "low rent."   
      
   Another source told Ali about a comment Fedida said about then-   
   ABC News journalist Kendis Gibson, a black anchor, that ABC   
   “spends more on toilet paper than we ever would on him."   
      
   According to the report, Fedida would also refer to women as "c--   
   -s" openly in the office.   
      
   Ali wrote that he had spoken with "34 sources over the course of   
   six months" comprised of current and former ABC News staff.   
      
   "To say that she’s an abusive figure is an understatement,” a   
   former ABC News staffer told the Huffington Post.   
      
   In a statement to Fox News, ABC News said at the time: "There   
   are deeply disturbing allegations in this story that we need to   
   investigate, and we have placed Barbara Fedida on administrative   
   leave while we conduct a thorough and complete investigation.   
   These allegations do not represent the values and culture of ABC   
   News, where we strive to make everyone feel respected in a   
   thriving, diverse and inclusive workplace.”   
      
   Fedida began working at ABC News back in 1989 as a staffer for   
   anchor Peter Jennings and had risen in the ranks among   
   executives. After leaving the Disney-owned network in 2005 for   
   an executive position at CBS News, Fedida returned to ABC News   
   in 2011.   
      
   "Normally, a talent executive in a network news division is   
   responsible for finding new talent, and developing and working   
   with the network’s current talent. Fedida does all that at ABC   
   News, but her role and influence go far beyond that. She is   
   essentially a deputy to Goldston and has been tasked with being   
   an enforcer and dealing with all of the difficult issues he   
   doesn’t want to handle," Ali wrote, referring to ABC News   
   president James Goldston.   
      
   Fedida was reportedly dismissive of the National Association of   
   Black Journalists (NABJ) despite her role of elevating diversity   
   at the network. Unlike most network executives, she would skip   
   the organization's annual convention.   
      
   A letter from NABJ was reportedly sent to Goldston laying out   
   ambitions to increase diversity, including having one senior   
   Black producer on every program and interviewing Black   
   candidates for all job openings.   
      
   However, Fedida, along with other executives, reportedly   
   referred to the letter as a "Black manifesto."   
      
   The NABJ issued a statement on June 13 calling for "ABC   
   News/Disney to immediately launch a transparent, external   
   investigation led by a diverse law firm to examine all of the   
   allegations detailed in [Yashar Ali's] report, while conducting   
      
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