Ken LaCorte is an executive at the Fox News Channel

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. In 2006, the network sent him to Gaza

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 to press for the release of kidnapped journalists Steve Centanni

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 and Olaf Wiig.

LaCorte graduated from Claremont McKenna College

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 in 1987. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as a media consultant for over a hundred companies and candidates in the United States

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 and internationally, including presidential campaigns in Colombia

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, Guatemala

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 and Venezuela

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.

In 1997, he challenged California

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 law by publishing the state's Megan's Law

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 list. Despite a warning from the state's Attorney General

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, LaCorte hand copied the state's high risk sex offenders and published them online. In 2004, California officially published the Megan's Law database on the internet.

LaCorte became the Western Region Bureau Chief for the Fox News Channel in 1999, the national Director of News Editorial in 2003 and the VP of Fox News Digital in 2006.