As a journalism student in the 1960s, he wrote his master's thesis on the then-emerging phenomenon of women in politics.[1] His first job as a journalist was with CHWO, a local radio station in Oakville, Ontario, where he began working in 1967.[2]
Fisher worked for CBC Television in the 1980s as a Queen's Park reporter and host of Dateline Ontario for CBLT,[3] until taking a job with the Global Television Network in 1988.[4] While at Global, he hosted and produced the weekend program Focus OntarioonCIII in the 1980s and 1990s.[5] He was also the network's first Queen's Park Bureau Chief,[6] an anchor of the station's late night and weekend newscasts,[7] and an occasional substitute anchor of First National.
He returned to CBC Radio shortly thereafter. He was an afternoon news anchor on CBLA, CBC Radio One's station in Toronto, appeared on the network's Ontario stations as a political analyst,[15] continued to anchor provincial election coverage for that service in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2014, and filed occasional science news reports, under the pseudonym "Dr. Robert", for the network's flagship interview program As It Happens.
In 2015, Fisher announced his retirement from journalism.[2] His final day at CBC Radio was July 23.[2]
He continues to contribute to CBC radio as a regular commentator on provincial politics for the network's Ontario stations. In a June 2017 appearance on CBC Sudbury's Morning North, he announced he would be returning to the network in September as a political analyst.
