Marc Fisher

Marc Fisher (born December 15, 1958) was a senior editor for The Washington Post until he was laid off in 2025. He wrote about national, foreign and local issues. He was previously a Post enterprise editor, leading a team of writers experimenting with new types of storytelling. Fisher wrote a local column for the Post and another about radio, music and culture titled "The Listener." and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Princeton University, where he was a member of the University Press Club.

Career Fisher previously wrote the local column for the Post and was the paper's Special Reports Editor. He wrote about politics and culture for the Style section. He also served as the Central Europe bureau chief on the Post's foreign staff and earlier covered schools in Washington, D.C., and D.C. politics for the Metro section. Fisher was the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, where he taught a course on The Journalism of Daily Life, served as journalist-in-residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Multiple right-wing media outlets criticized Fisher for his lack of research.

Family Fisher and his wife Jody Goodman have a son and daughter. The family resides in Washington.