FOX News Channel Signs Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer to Contributor Role
July 10 2017 - 12:05PM
Business Wire
FOX News Channel (FNC) has signed former White House press
secretary Ari Fleischer to a contributor role, announced Jay
Wallace, President of News. In this role, effective immediately, he
will offer strategic communications and political analysis across
FNC and FOX Business Network’s (FBN) daytime and primetime
programming.
Mr. Fleischer is currently the president of Ari Fleischer
Communications and Ari Fleischer Sports Communications, a company
that offers strategic advice and communications training to sports
organizations, athletes and various corporations.
In making the announcement, Wallace said, “Ari’s decades of
experience in political communication and immense knowledge of the
White House and its interactions with the press will add valuable
insight to our programming.”
Mr. Fleischer added, “I very much look forward to joining FOX
and to sharing my perspective on national, political and
governmental events. When it comes to coverage and analysis of
Washington, FOX has a powerful and important voice and I’m proud to
join them.”
Previously, Mr. Fleischer served as the White House press
secretary to former President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003.
During that historic period, Mr. Fleischer was the primary
spokesperson during the presidential recount, September 11th, two
wars and an anthrax attack. Prior to joining his administration,
Mr. Fleischer held the position of senior communications adviser
and spokesman for Bush’s presidential campaign beginning in
1999.
Before joining Bush’s campaign for president, Mr. Fleischer was
the national spokesman for Elizabeth Dole’s (R) presidential
campaign during the 2000 election primary season. He previously
worked as the communications director on the House Committee on
Ways and Means after Republicans won the majority in Congress in
1994 and served as press secretary to Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM)
from 1989 to 1994.
A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Mr. Fleischer began
his political career working as a press secretary on the
congressional campaign of New York Republican candidate Jon Fossel
and later was hired as press secretary to Rep. Norman Lent (R-NY).
He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Taking
Heat: The President, the Press and My Years in the White
House.”
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political
and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been
the most-watched television news channel for more than 15 years and
according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, is the
most-trusted television news source in the country. Owned by 21st
Century Fox, FNC is available in 90 million homes and dominates the
cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in
the genre.
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