Paul Bliss is no longer with CTV
Queen’s Park reporter was accused in January of sexual misconduct
A prominent CTV News reporter who was suspended after a woman made sexual-misconduct allegations against him is no longer with the company, Bell Media said Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the company confirmed the departure of Paul Bliss but refused to provide further details. “We don’t comment on the specifics of individual employee matters,” Scott Henderson said in an email.
Bliss did not immediately respond to a request for com- ment. The allegations against him have not been verified.
The veteran reporter, who worked at CTV’s bureau at the Ontario legislature, was suspended in late January hours after the publication of a blog post containing allegations by Bridget Brown, who describes herself as a Calgary-based entrepreneur and former CTV employee.
Henderson, Bell Media’s vicepresident of communications, said at the time that Bliss had been suspended pending an investigation in light of the allegations.
In the blog post titled “MeToo in Canadian Broadcasting,” Brown detailed an alleged sexual incident involving an unnamed CTV reporter in the spring of 2006. She said she had reached out to the reporter she had met at a party a few weeks earlier to ask if he wanted to have coffee with her.
The reporter “suggested instead I come to his office,” Brown wrote. After he showed her around, they ended up in his office where, she said, he started kissing her and pushing on the top of her head. She said she told him she wasn’t interested and that he then performed a sex act in front of her.