Sara Fischer is an award-winning media correspondent for Axios and a founding staff member at Axios. She is also a media analyst at CNN. 

Fischer authors a weekly newsletter on media trends that reaches over 160,000 professionals across the media, tech and entertainment industries. (Sign up here: https://www.axios.com/signup/media-trends) 

She also helms a paid membership program called Media Trends Executive that provides exclusive news, data and analysis for top professionals media and entertainment.

Beyond her weekly column and membership product, Fischer oversees Axios' media coverage for the newsroom, and steers the company’s products and events around that topic. 

Her coverage spans corporate media, advertising and marketing, technology, social media, deals, entertainment, media regulation, policy and consumer habits. 

Axios Media Trends was recognized by the Association of Business Journalists as the best media and entertainment newsletter for 2025. Fischer was named to Mediaite's "Most Influential in News Media" list for 2022. She was included in The Washingtonian's list the 500 "Most Powerful People in Washington D.C."  in 2022 and 2023. She was named to Forbes “30 Under 30” Media list in 2019.