Fox news fires producer who accused network of coercion

Fox News Media has fired a producer who last week accused the network of discrimination and of coercing her into providing misleading testimony in a blockbuster defamation case, according to court documents filed Monday.

Lawyers for the producer, Abby Grossberg, who had worked for hosts Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson, said in the complaints that she was fired Friday in retaliation for a pair of lawsuits she had filed against the company several days earlier.

In those suits, Grossberg claimed that Fox News lawyers had coached her to deflect blame from executives and male hosts in her deposition for Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.