In 1986, O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent.He had delivered a eulogy for his friend Joe Spencer, an ABC News correspondent who died in a helicopter crash on January 22, 1986, en route to covering the Hormel meatpacker strike.Laurie Walker Dhue (born February 10, 1969) is the founder, CEO, and president of Laurie Dhue Media and an American television journalist.Currently, Dhue hosts some episodes of The Blaze's investigative journalism news magazine For the Record.After the September 11 attacks, O'Reilly accused the United Way of America and American Red Cross of failing to deliver millions of dollars in donated money, raised by the organizations in the name of the disaster, to the families of those killed in the attacks.

Soon after, as a WCBS News anchor and correspondent, he won his second local Emmy, for an investigation of corrupt city marshals.

O'Reilly/Hope all is well, kiss the plaintiff and the wifey," in reference to his sexual-harassment suit with Andrea Mackris while married.

In an interview with Radar in 2010, Ludacris said the two had made amends after a conversation at a charity event.

After the first New York Times investigation revealed that O'Reilly and Fox News had settled five sexual harassment lawsuits totaling million, Fox News terminated O'Reilly's employment in April 2017.

In October 2017, The New York Times reported an additional settlement of million that O'Reilly had paid to settle a sixth sexual harassment lawsuit, which had been filed against him by former Fox News analyst Lis Wiehl because of the "non-consensual sexual relationship" she says O'Reilly initiated with her. Brigid parochial school in Westbury, and Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys high school in Mineola.