 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.