Chicago Reporter Fired for Swimming With Missing Mom Lisa Stebic's Husband Files Lawsuit
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
AP
TV reporter Amy Jacobson is captured on video near a pool at Craig Stebic's Plainfield, Ill., home.
TV reporter Amy Jacobson is captured on video near a pool at Craig Stebic's Plainfield, Ill., home.
A reporter who was fired last year after being filmed in a bikini top at the home of a man whose wife disappeared has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the TV station that aired the footage.
Amy Jacobson filed the lawsuit against Chicago CBS-affiliate WBBM-TV, claiming the tape it aired of her in a swimsuit at the home of Craig Stebic caused the reporter "enormous public humiliation and disgrace," according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
Jacobson lost her job in July 2007 at NBC-affiliate WMAQ-TV after the tape aired. She had been covering the disappearance of Craig Stebic's wife Lisa. The video showed Jacobson in a bikini top near the pool at Stebic's home in Plainfield, Ill.
WBBM-TV said the lawsuit has no merit.
Also named as a defendant is Northwestern University journalism professor Michele Weldon who commented on air for a CBS story. Weldon said she has a right to free speech and her comments weren't inflammatory.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
