Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication

Welcome to the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication

Named for the national press secretary for two U.S. 总统们，马林·菲茨沃特 Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce University is a world-class center for teaching civic engagement through public communication. 首页 to the university’s nationally recognized polling operation and the 皮尔斯传媒集团, the Fitzwater Center sponsors 项目 like the annual Fitzwater Medallion Awards, which brings influential media leaders to campus to engage with students, and The 总统与新闻界, a summer journalism intensive for high school students. The Fitzwater Center’s facilities enable Franklin Pierce students to write, film, edit and produce programming for student-run television, radio, print and digital media outlets.

PoliticsFitzU is our student media organization that covers political news and events throughout the Granite State, including presidential campaign events in the first-in-the-nation primary, national party conventions, and even inaugural events at the White House. PoliticsFitzU students host Pizza and Politics, a series of on-campus conversations between community members and presidential candidates.

Franklin Pierce University partners with the Boston Herald, NBC10/NECN/Telemundo, 以及资深民调专家R. Kelly Myers to conduct political polls in the runup to the 总统选举. Students participate in survey design, data collection and 分析和媒体关系. Up-to-date polling results and analysis can be found 在BCK体育APP官方下载的网站. Student and faculty commentators can be available to the press through 联系方式如下.

The Fitzwater Center is a founding partner of the Granite State 新闻 Collaborative, a statewide multimedia news collaborative whose members work together to add dimension and depth to reporting on issues of concern to the New Hampshire public as a whole, 对各个社区来说. Fitzwater students have contributed research, writing, analysis and production services to support this collaboration.

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Franklin Pierce University is an accredited private university in New Hampshire that achieves outstanding student success through the integration of liberal arts and professional 项目. The University includes a 1200-acre residential campus in Rindge, N.H., as well as centers in Manchester, Lebanon and Portsmouth, N.H. 以及亚利桑那州的固特异. Students in the College of Business, the College of 健康 and Natural Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences earn degrees through the doctoral level in classroom-based and online 项目. Franklin Pierce is a NCAA Division II institution, with 24 varsity athletic teams for men and women.

Drawing on our strong foundation in liberal education, we offer highly personalized, financially accessible academic 项目 that develop essential professional skills, promote close community connections, and help students realize their potential to become engaged and qualified leaders.

中心项目

The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication offers numerous 项目 that reach out to constituencies on campus, within the region and beyond to the national arena.

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关于马林·菲茨沃特

Learn more about the Center’s namesake, Marlin Fitzwater, who served as press secretary to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. 布什.

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通讯系

The 通讯系 is housed within the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication and offers degrees in Communication with concentrations in Journalism and Media Production as well as Media Studies, Sports Media, and Digital Media Design.

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皮尔斯传媒集团

皮尔斯媒体集团 consists of the Pierce Arrow 新闻paper, FP-TV, and the Pierce 广播电台. This organization is operated completely by students like you that have an interest in mass communications and media.

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Nalina Shapiro is a 新闻 Reporter and Anchor for WIVB-TV CBS in Buffalo, NY and a 2010 graduate of Franklin Pierce University. In this video, she explains how her Franklin Pierce education helped launch her successful broadcasting career.