Katie Couric: After the Fox News Sexual Harassment Scandal, Gretchen Carlson Is on a Powerful New Mission

Carlson and her Lift Our Voices cofounder Julie Roginsky are trying to end the use of NDAs — and stop monsters like Roger Ailes from preying on workers.

In 2016, more than a year before the #MeToo movement got off the ground, veteran journalist Gretchen Carlson dropped a bombshell: She had filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, claiming that she’d been fired after 11 years with the network for refusing Ailes’ sexual advances. Ailes denied the allegations, but Carlson’s claims opened the floodgates for scores of other women, including Fox contributor and political strategist Julie Roginsky, to come forward and accuse Ailes of retaliating against them for the very same thing.