Marc Fisher (born December 15, 1958)
Early life and education
Fisher grew up in New York,
attended the Horace Mann School
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.
He worked at the
Miami Herald from 1980 to 1986. Since then, he has worked at
The Washington Post as a reporter, editor, and columnist. He was the
Post's correspondent in Germany from 1989 to 1994.
Criticism
On 26 May 2022, Fisher
Tweeted an article previously written by himself in 2018 after the Robb Elementary School shooting, in which he falsely claimed that the AR-15 was "Invented for Nazi infantrymen, further developed by the US military".
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.
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