Bill Shine

On March 8, 2019, it was announced by the White House that Shine was resigning from his position to serve as an advisor to President Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. Shine said in a statement about his resignation that he is "looking forward to working on President Trump's re-election campaign and spending more time with family." In May 2019, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told Politico that he did not intend to replace Shine with a new communications director.

Shine accepted an offer in June 2018 to take a position within the Trump administration as a Deputy White House Chief of Staff overseeing communication within the White House. On July 5, 2018, Shine's controversial appointment became official, despite its criticism personified by those such as Bill Kristol, and underscored by protests including from Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, airing on conservative websites such as Newsmax. In particular, those objecting cited Shine's awareness at the time of the channel's hiring private detectives to intimidate alleged victims of Roger Ailes. Later it was reported that Shine's compensation upon leaving Fox was in the neighborhood of $15 million.

Shine was named in at least four lawsuits against Fox alleging sexual harassment or racial discrimination by the company. In April 2017, New York magazine reported that Shine was uncertain about his future at Fox and that he did not think that Rupert Murdoch had been supportive enough of him. A Fox spokesperson denied that the conversations described in the report took place. Fox host Sean Hannity supported Shine, saying that it would be "the total end of the FNC as we know it" if Shine were fired.

On May 1, 2017, Shine was forced out of Fox. Suzanne Scott, who had served as the organization's senior vice president of programming and development since 2009, was promoted to co-president to take his place.

Shine worked alongside of Fox chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes for two decades. After Ailes left Fox, the new executive chairman, Rupert Murdoch, named Shine and Jack Abernethy as co-presidents of Fox News in August 2016. Shine headed the network's news and programming operations.

In 2014, Shine was promoted to Fox's senior executive vice president of programming.

In 2009, Fox host Glenn Beck said that President Barack Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" and "is racist", after President Obama said that Cambridge police officers acted "stupidly" by arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for breaking into his own home. Responding to Beck's comment, Shine said that Beck had "expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions." When Fox News Channel's journalists complained that Beck's show was undermining their work, Shine admitted that Beck was controversial and that Fox News Channel had assigned a vice president the full-time job of overseeing Beck's show and to review its content in advance.

In 2007, after Bill O'Reilly dined at Sylvia's soul-food restaurant in Harlem, O'Reilly said he "couldn't get over the fact" that eating at the restaurant "was like going into an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all." Responding to criticism of O'Reilly's statement, Shine said, "This is nothing more than left-wing outlets stirring up false racism accusations for ratings."

In 2005, when asked why the U.S. media carried many stories about missing white women (missing white woman syndrome) and disproportionately few about missing black women, Shine commented that "the stories that go national have a twist or an emotional aspect to them that make them interesting".

By 2004, Shine was the vice president of production for Fox News Channel. The following year, Shine was Fox News Channel's senior vice president of programming.

In 2001 on Fox News Channel's The Edge, psychic Sylvia Browne said that she knew where the body of Chandra Levy was located. On Fox News Channel's Judith Regan Tonight, psychic James Van Praagh discussed Chandra Levy. Shine responded to questions about having psychics appear on Fox News Channel by saying that psychics are "part of the story" because the Levy family had consulted some. Shine said that the psychics provide "another opinion, another side of the story".

By 1999, Shine was the senior prime-time producer for Fox News. The following year Shine was the executive producer of Fox News Channel's prime-time programs.

A twin, Shine grew up in East Northport, Long Island, New York, the son of a New York City police officer. He received a B.A. in communications from the State University of New York at Oswego. After college, he worked as a producer for local TV stations on Long Island, beginning in 1985 with WLIG-TV.

William Shine (born July 4, 1963) is a former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Most of his career was spent as a producer and executive at Fox News. Most recently, he was co-president of Fox News, a position he held for 9 months before he was forced out on May 1, 2017. On March 8, 2019, the White House announced that Shine was resigning to advise President Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.