CRAIG SILVERMAN

Any Montrealers who are curious about press errors, corrections and accuracy can come hear me give a free lunchtime talk at the Atwater Library (1200 Atwater) on January 30 at 12:30 p.m. Here are the details:
Regretting Errors: The History And Current State of Media Accuracy, Errors, and Corrections
Craig Silverman, author of the new book Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes …

We heckled, laughed, screamed, chanted, begged for water, frightened Samantha Bee, annoyed Wendy Mesley and, most importantly, dominated. I speak of last night’s performance by the blogger team on Test the Nation. It was a blast.
Over 30 Wordpress monkeys were flown to Toronto to square off against cab drivers, celebrity look-alikes, chefs, backpackers and flight crews. We talked a big …

Juan Antonio Giner writes a fantastic blog about innovations in newspapers. He’s the founder of the INNOVATION Media Consulting Group, which does amazing work redesigning and reimagining newspapers. I read the blog because he often posts images and page layouts of the company’s work. They never fail to impress. But in a somewhat off-topic post from today, he points to …

Earlier this week I picked up the phone to hear Bill Brownstein, a columnist for The Gazette (Montreal), on the other line. Bill and I have never met, but we share a few friends in common and I’ve long been a reader of his columns. It was great to speak with him, and especially nice that he called looking to …

Though I was involved with Assignment Zero, the first project undertaken by NewAssignment.net, I have to confess that I’ve been a bit out of touch with how NewAssignment has evolved. But thanks to a Tweet by the ever-engaged Matthew Ingram, I was directed to a post by David Cohn on the NewAssignment website. I was a fan of Dave’s during …

It’s been about nine months since I started writing The Office column and blog for The Globe And Mail, and my December 31 offering was a look back at the year in workplace stories. It’s online here and the full text is below.
The 2007 Office Awards
Looking back at a long year on the job
CRAIG SILVERMAN
December 31, 2007
From gun-toting co-workers …

Do you see the pensive people in this photo? They’re what you call bloggers, and I’ll be counted among them when the CBC airs the next edition of Test The Nation on January 20th. I’ve been drafted as part of the team of bloggers who’ll be taking the test live on TV that night. We’re going up against chefs, cab …