10 Facts About Marc Fisher

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Marc Fisher was born on December 15,1958 and is a senior editor for The Washington Post, where he writes about national, foreign and local issues.

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Marc Fisher was previously a Post enterprise editor, leading a team of writers experimenting with new types of storytelling.

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Marc 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.

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Marc Fisher previously wrote the local column for the Post and was the paper's Special Reports Editor.

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Marc Fisher wrote about politics and culture for the Style section.

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Marc Fisher served as the Central Europe bureau chief on the Post's foreign staff and earlier covered schools in Washington, DC, and DC politics for the Metro section.

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Marc 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.

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Marc Fisher worked at the Miami Herald from 1980 to 1986.

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Marc Fisher was the Post's correspondent in Germany from 1989 to 1994.

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On 26 May 2022, Marc Fisher retweeted 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".