Ford Fischer

Ford Fischer is an independent journalist and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of News2Share, a media company in DC with White House press credentials. News2share is a platform for raw video journalism related to political activism.

Early career Fischer started reporting on politics when he went to Masconomet Regional High School. He filmed local politics in the town of Boxford, Massachusetts, for Boxford Cable TV. He received a degree in film and media arts from American University.

News2Share Fischer co-founded News2Share with Trey Yingst in 2014 when they were both students of American University. Fischer's journalism involves recording political events such as those related to rallies and protests, later uploading raw unedited footage to online platforms where its shared and licensed to larger media organisations. and ProPublica's Documenting Hate.

In 2019, Fischer's channel News2Share was demonetized and could no longer receive advertising revenue from YouTube.

After his reporting of the US Capitol riots, Twitter shadow banned Fischer, an action which limits the ability of his account to appear in Twitter's search results, and which shows warnings about "potentially sensitive content" on his tweets. Journalist Matt Taibbi posted an article criticizing Twitter and Youtube's "crackdown on independent media". The article referenced Fischer. Fischer has stated that he considers it important that his Trump rally footage remain available to the public because it documents events relative to Donald Trump's second impeachment trial over his role in the events of January 6. Jay Ulfelder, a Harvard University academic, emailed YouTube to say that footage of the rally is "crucial archival material for future scholars looking to get a better sense of what happened".