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Steve Fishman is an award-winning magazine and podcast journalist and author. As a staff writer for New York, he was known for landing the impossible-to-get subject. Fishman got to Son of Sam in prison, and Bernie Madoff opened up to him.Fishman jumped the world of podcasts with a series for Audible, Ponzi Supernova, about Madoff. He followed that with a number one series, Empire on Blood, for Panoply. In 2022, he launched his podcast company, Orbit Media, with Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens. Among the company’s investors is Sony Music Entertainment, with which Orbit has a first-look deal.Fishman began his career in journalism at a local paper, the Norwich Bulletin in Connecticut, where he was picked up hitchhiking by a man who turned out to be a serial killer. His relationship with that killer is the subject of an upcoming podcast from Sony Music.Today, Fishman lives in Brooklyn where he owns a bar and where he and his wife chase around a toddler.
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Meet the NYC Cop Who Became the Champ of Wrongful Arrests
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUEDetective Louis Scarcella was once one of the Big Apple’s most celebrated cops. But that was four decades ago. A lot has unraveled in the meantime.