--- description: Gretchen Carlson is on the TIME 100 2017 list. Katie Couric wrote about the television commentator. title: Gretchen Carlson by Katie Couric: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63fbb1e55ce96978/6988c33a8fd2ee714c356a12/time-100-2017-gretchen-carlson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 19, 2017 # Gretchen Carlson by Katie Couric  Photograph by Peter Hapak for TIME Speaking truth to power is never easy. It’s even harder when the whole country is watching. Gretchen Carlson’s very public stand against Fox News blew the lid off a corporate culture that seemed to perpetuate sexual harassment—from the executive suite to the anchor desk. Gretchen had her own Howard Beale moment: she was mad as hell and she wasn’t going to take it anymore. Her resolve led to the downfall of one of the most powerful men in media, Roger Ailes. Now Gretchen is shining a light on the fine print in employment contracts that force victims into arbitration and secret settlements, leaving the public in the dark. In addition to putting more women in positions of power and replacing the word troublemaker with truth teller, Gretchen also wants men to join the fight. Some have already enlisted. As one wrote to her: “No woman should ever have to be made to feel less or robbed of an opportunity because of some misogynistic jackass who can’t read the Constitution.” _Couric is the global anchor for Yahoo News_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736263/gretchen-carlson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736263/gretchen-carlson/"},"headline":"Gretchen Carlson","datePublished":"2017-04-19T20:24:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:43.188Z","description":"Gretchen Carlson is on the TIME 100 2017 list. Katie Couric wrote about the television commentator.","url":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736263/gretchen-carlson/","keywords":["TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63fbb1e55ce96978/6988c33a8fd2ee714c356a12/time-100-2017-gretchen-carlson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63fbb1e55ce96978/6988c33a8fd2ee714c356a12/time-100-2017-gretchen-carlson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736263/gretchen-carlson/","name":"Gretchen Carlson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See All the TIME 100 Honorees in One Minute","description":"The TIME 100 honorees include actors, musicians, politicians, business leaders, activists and scientists, and together make a portrait of influence in 2017.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/zZCdrcRA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-04-20T10:30:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/zZCdrcRA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736263/gretchen-carlson/","duration":"PT56S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736263/gretchen-carlson/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```