ABC Boss Calls For Independent Investigation

A day after a lawsuit dropped against a former Senior Producer at ABC News, the company is calling for an outside investigation.

The lawsuit was filed against ABC and former Good Morning Executive Micheal Corn and alleges sexual misconduct by Corn against some female staffers.

Corn is now the person running Nexstar’s struggling News Nation, cable news station.

The Wall Street Journal reports that ABC News President Kim Godwin told staffers on a conference call Thursday that she has requested an independent investigation into how the network handled allegations of sexual assault against the former executive producer of “Good Morning America.”

“We can’t have us investigating us. We need an independent person,” Godwin said, according to a recording of the conference call. “The process has to be independent.”

Corn denied wrongdoing and called the allegations fabrications.He continues to lead the Nexstar cable outlet.