Ian Fisher (journalist)

Charles Ian Fisher (born October 4, 1965) is an American journalist who writes for Bloomberg.

He worked for 27 years at The New York Times, as a foreign and war correspondent, editor and digital chief.

Fisher graduated from Boston University in 1987 and began his newspaper career at The Sun in Lowell, Massachusetts.

From 1998 to 2001, Fisher was The New York Times' East Africa bureau chief (based in Nairobi, Kenya).

He began in Jerusalem full-time in January 2017 and left the paper later that year.