 Fishman worked as social media editor for "The Huffington Post", contributing editor for BuzzFeed, and has written for "Slate", "New York", and The Daily Beast.Fishman's coverage of the Cornell gorge suicides in 2010 for "The Huffington Post" gained widespread attention.In 2013, a story he wrote for BuzzFeed, claiming that "the social media editor is dead," led to a firestorm from new media journalists.