Marc Fisher

Who Made Wash City Paper's 2009 "Best Of DC" List? - Posted March 30, 2009
What do Wonkette's Jim Newell, WaPo's Marc Fisher, Politico's John Harris, WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi and The Big Hunt all have in common? They all made the Washington City Paper's 2009 "Best of DC" List. Below are some highlights we thought you'd find interesting. The complete list can be found here. Best Local Blog/Blogger:... [FishBowlDC]

Who Made Wash City Paper's 2009 "Best Of DC" List? - Posted March 30, 2009
What do Wonkette's Jim Newell, WaPo's Marc Fisher, Politico's John Harris, WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi and The Big Hunt all have in common? They all made the Washington City Paper's 2009 "Best of DC" List. Below are some highlights we thought you'd find interesting. The complete list can be found here. Best Local Blog/Blogger:... [FishBowlDC]

Cranky Council Member Attacks Free Neighborhood Newspaper - Posted March 10, 2009
The Brookland Heartbeat, a bimonthly non-profit neighborhood newser is under attack by Ward 5 City Council Member Harry Thomas. Last week, Thomas posted a letter to the editor on his website accusing the paper of "salacious headlines, biased reporting and a conflict of interest." He also threatened to go after the Heartbeat's... [FishBowlDC]

Cranky Council Member Attacks Free Neighborhood Newspaper - Posted March 10, 2009
The Brookland Heartbeat, a bimonthly non-profit neighborhood newser is under attack by Ward 5 City Council Member Harry Thomas. Last week, Thomas posted a letter to the editor on his website accusing the paper of "salacious headlines, biased reporting and a conflict of interest." He also threatened to go after the Heartbeat's... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 03.09.09 - Posted March 9, 2009
Good Morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. Its day 49 covering the Obama administration and week six for us. What we know and what... [FishBowlDC]

More Post Buyout Updates - Posted April 10, 2008
Marc Fisher tells FishbowlDC that he's considering the WaPo's buyout: It's just sad that the state of the industry has put so many of us in the position of having to choose whether to leave work that we dearly love. Lois Romano will probably not take the buyout, we hear. A round-up: Gene Weingarten: Maybe. Tamara... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 01.15.08 - Posted January 15, 2008
Good morning Washington. It's the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Wikipedia. (See King's Wikipedia entry here.) Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: REVOLVING DOOR | NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | RADIO | JOBS You think Hillary Clinton was "edgy" on "Meet" REVOLVING DOOR The Washington Business Journal reports, "Gannett Co. Inc.... [FishBowlDC]

Poor Marc Fisher... - Posted November 12, 2007
The Washington Post's Marc Fisher posted this notice on the paper's internal message board on Friday: do yourselves a favor and don't use the first car in the main bank of elevators--the one closest to the newsroom. i just spent a lovely chunk of the afternoon stuck between 3 and 4, lurching... [FishBowlDC]

"Fred Fiske's Double Life on the Air" - Posted August 20, 2007
From Marc Fisher: Now it can be told: The backwoods voice of Washington's most popular hillbilly radio show of the 1950s, Skeeter Hawkins, was in fact longtime talk show host Fred Fiske, putting on a Kentucky accent and posing for publicity photos wearing a big cowboy hat. Under his own name, Fiske --... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 04.16.07 - Posted April 16, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think we will all soon forget "Imus-gate" and move on. Marc Fisher on Imus... NPR News will offer live anchored broadcast coverage and audio streaming of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on the Department of Justice Oversight on Tuesday, April 17. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Deb... [FishBowlDC]

Taking Out The Trash - 02.26.07 - Posted February 26, 2007
An NBC release announced that "Meet The Press with Tim Russert" "continues to dominate the Sunday morning public affairs competition, winning the week ending Sunday, February 18 in all categories both nationally and in Washington, D.C." Last Sunday, "Meet" attracted 4.035 million total viewers, a 40% lead over CBS's "Face the... [FishBowlDC]

Taking Out The Trash, 02.14.07 - Posted February 14, 2007
From the few shows we offered you, "Grey's Anatomy" seems to be your favorite, with "24" a close second. Tipsters wrote in upset that we hadn't included "Ugly Betty," "Dirt" and "The Office." An ABC release announced that "World News with Charles Gibson" is "the #1 evening newscast among Total Viewers, Adults... [FishBowlDC]