After graduating, he worked first for radio station Echo of Moscow and newspaper Kommersant, and later for such outlets as Russkiy telegraf «Русский телеграф» and the magazines Results «Итоги» and Internet «Интернет».

[7] Fishman was quoted by The Sunday Times as saying the "KGB style tactic" was a signal to independent journalists to keep a low profile.

[8] In 2013 he became editor-in-chief of an online paper startup project for Moscow's metropolitan area, Cityboom, and remained until it was closed in July 2014.

His weekly current affairs discussion show And so on with Mikhail Fishman appears on the same channel each Friday evening.

In a 2017 opinion contribution to CNN, Fishman lamented the pressures that he blamed for "the decline of editorial freedom and professional integrity in journalism in Russia".