Sara Fischer

Sara Fischer

Senior Media Reporter and Author of Media Trends Newsletter

Fischer was chair of the social media dependency panel at ISOJ 2023. Watch the presentation here.

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Sara Fischer is a senior media reporter for Axios and a founding staff member at Axios. She is also a media analyst at CNN. Sara authors a must-read weekly newsletter on media trends that reaches over 100,000 professionals across the media, tech and entertainment industries. (Sign up here) Beyond her weekly column, Sara oversees Axios’ media coverage for the newsroom, and steers the company’s products and events around that topic. Her coverage spans corporate media, advertising and marketing, technology, social media, deals, entertainment, media regulation, policy and consumer habits. She was recently named to Mediaite’s “Most Influential in News Media” list for 2022. She was also named to The Washingtonian’s list of the 500 “Most Powerful People in Washington D.C.” Sara was named to Forbes “30 Under 30” Media list in 2019.

Sara Fischer

Sara Fischer

Media Reporter, Axios

(Video of Fischer’s presentation at ISOJ2018 is below bio, along with article from ISOJ team)

Twitter: @sarafischer
Sara Fischer is a media reporter for Axios, covering media trends. Previously, she was a digital producer for The Washington Post, where she produced and edited segments for live and digital audiences. Sara’s media background includes writing, reporting, subscription and advertising sales, as well as corporate research. She came to The Post from The New York Times where she was part of The Times’ political advertising team. Sara joined The Times from CNN in 2014, where she wrote breaking news stories for CNN Politics and co-authored the network’s political newsletter, Gut Check. Before joining CNN, Sara served as a business development associate at POLITICO, where she helped manage sales operations and client engagement for the company’s advertising team. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from The George Washington University in political communication and a Master’s degree from The George Washington University in legislative affairs.

Fischer was chair and presenter for the panel NEWSLETTERS: How email, an almost 50-year-old technology, has become the next big thing for news organizations at ISOJ 2018 on Saturday, April 14 @ 2:30 p.m.

Read the story covering Fischer’s panel here.