WABC bosses out after ‘reverse racism’ scandal

WABC/Channel 7 bosses Dave Davis and Camille Edwards are out amid two discrimination lawsuits from employees.

Last fall, WABC sports reporter Laura Behnke filed a discrimination lawsuit against Davis and Edwards, claiming she wasn’t promoted to the main sports reporter position because she is a white woman. Behnke later left WABC in New York when her contract expired.

Matthew Lamattina, another employee, filed a separate discrimination lawsuit against Edwards last October.

Now, Page Six has learned that both Davis and Edwards have left the company.

WABC announced Davis’ retirement Thursday in a news release.

In Davis’ departing memo to staff, which was obtained by Page Six, the WABC president explained that he wouldn’t be working another day.

“Having decided this, I think it best to move on quickly,” Davis wrote in his email to staff. “No time like the present. Leaving a place and people you care for is always difficult, but this is the right time.”

A source added to Page Six, “This is something he has been speaking to management about for some time.”

Page Six learned in December Edwards had taken a leave of absence to deal with family matters, but a source close to WABC told us Friday that she has actually been “banned” from the office and has not been on leave.

However, a separate source told us that Edwards simply extended her leave, and that’s why she’s not currently working, and that there is no ban.