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Shelley Ross is an American television executive producer, former writer and editor at the National Enquirer , [1] former executive producer of ABC News Good Morning America , [2] [3] [4] and former executive producer at CBS News The Early Show . [5] [6] [7]

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Ross was a segment producer of The Tomorrow Show in 1981. In 2016, she accused her boss, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment shortly after she was hired in 1981. [8]

Ross was a producer for ABC News. [9] For her work on prime time, in 2005, she won a shared Gerald Loeb Award for Television Deadline. [10] Ross was a producer of The Early Show . [11] [12]

In September 2021, she accused her previous employee, Chris Cuomo, of sexually harassing her in 2005 during an employee's farewell party at a bar in Manhattan. [9] [13] [14] [15] Stopping short of asking him to be fired from CNN, she said she would "like to see him journalistically repent." Cuomo admitted to the incident and apologized in a statement: "As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it." [16]

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  2. ↑ Maynard, John (15 April 2004). "ABC Sends 'GMA' Producer to Prime Time". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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