A twin, Shine grew up in Farmingville, Long Island, New York.[6][7] He received a B.A. in
communications from the State
University of New York at Oswego.[8] After college, he worked as a
producer for local TV stations on Long Island,[7] beginning in 1985 with WLIG-TV.[8]
Shine began working for Fox as the senior producer of Hannity & Colmes[9] and was forced out of the
network for his alleged participation in its culture of sexual harassment.[10]
By 1999, Shine was the senior prime-time producer for Fox News.[11] The following year Shine was
the executive producer of
Fox News Channel's prime-time programs.[12]
In 2001 on Fox News Channel's The Edge, psychic Sylvia Browne said that she knew where
the body of Chandra Levy was
located.[13] On Fox News Channel's Judith
Regan Tonight, psychic James Van Praagh discussed Chandra Levy.[13] 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".[13]
By 2004, Shine was the vice president of production for Fox News
Channel.[14] The following year, Shine was
Fox News Channel's senior vice president of programming.[15]
When U.S. media carried many stories about missing white women (missing white
woman syndrome) and disproportionately few about missing black
women, Shine defended Fox News Channel's coverage, saying that Fox News Channel
chose to air stories that "have a twist or an emotional aspect to them
that make them interesting".[16]
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."[17]
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".[18] after President Obama said
that Cambridge police
officers acted "stupidly" by arresting
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for breaking into his own home.[19][20] 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."[18] 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.[21]
In 2014, Shine was promoted to Fox's senior executive vice
president of programming.[22]
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
news and business in August 2016.[23][24]
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