Shadow Politics, November 3, 2024
Shadow Politics with Senator Michael D. Brown
What really happened at WaPo? - With Guest, associate editor of The Washington Post, Marc Fisher
What happened at The Washington Post? Why no endorsement in 44 years for the 2024 presidential election? Did the billionaires unite from the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post? What really happened and WHY?!
I will have a frank conversation with editor Marc Fisher about these questions and others as we approach the final stage of the most consequential election of the last 50 years.
Tune in for this exciting discussion as we see if we can restore our faith in our hometown newspaper!
An associate editor of The Washington Post, Marc Fisher writes a column on Washington — the city, its suburbs and the people and issues of big-city America. Fisher moved to Opinions in 2024 after 37 years as a reporter and editor across various news sections at The Post, most recently focusing on Donald Trump (Fisher was co-author of “TRUMP REVEALED: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President”) and major breaking-news events.
Marc previously created and led the Metro staff's enterprise reporting group, spent a decade as local columnist and blogger, served as the paper's special reports editor, wrote about politics and culture for the Style section, worked as Central Europe bureau chief on The Post’s Foreign staff and covered DC schools and DC politics for the Metro section, where he was also an assistant city editor.
His history of radio since the advent of television, “SOMETHING IN THE AIR: Radio, Rock and The Revolution That Shaped a Generation” (Random House, 2007), traces radio’s role in the nation’s popular culture from 1950 to the present, focusing on how old media adapt when new technologies burst onto the marketplace.
Fisher taught creative nonfiction writing as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Marc is also author of “AFTER THE WALL: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History” (Simon and Schuster, 1995), a reporter’s view of Germany during and after reunification.
He was part of The Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 and part of The Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2014.
Headlined Show, Shadow Politics November 3, 2024
The Washington Post's MARC FISHER Tells Us What Really happened about the NO endorsement! What happened at The Washington Post? Why no endorsement in 44 years for the 2024 presidential election? Did the billionaires unite from the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post? What really happened and WHY?! I will have a frank conversation with editor Marc Fisher about these questions and others as we approach the final stage of the most consequential election of the last 50 years.
Guest, Marc Fisher
Marc Fisher, a senior editor of The Washington Post, reports and writes on a wide range of topics. He has been the enterprise editor, local columnist and Berlin bureau chief, among other positions, over
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