Oct 26, 2007
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About Me
Hello. I'm a journalist, author and media critic in Montreal, Canada. I serve as the managing editor of PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab, two websites that report on how blogs, podcasting, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators and online video are changing our media world. I'm also the digital journalism director of OpenFile, a new collaborative local news website for Canada.
My writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Globe And Mail, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, Report On Business, Report On Small Business, Editor & Publisher, The Coast, and the Sunday Herald, among others.
I write two weekly columns: The Explainer for Hour, and Regret the Error for Columbia Journalism Review. And I'm the founder and editor of Regret the Error, an award-winning site that tracks and reports on accuracy and media corrections. My book, Regret The Error: How media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, was published by Penguin Group (Canada) and Union Square Press in fall 2007. Read an excerpt and some reviews here. It won an award from the U.S. National Press Club. I'm also a former columnist and blogger for The Globe And Mail.
My second book, co-written with Michael Calce, is Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken. It won the Arthur Ellis Award for Non-Fiction from the Crime Writers of Canada.
I'm represented by Don Sedgwick and Shaun Bradley of the Transatlantic Literary Agency. I serve as Vice President of the Professional Writers Association of Canada and am a member of the Board of Directors of the Concordia Journalism Alumni Association. I'm also an unpaid advisor to MediaBugs, a Knight Foundation-funded project.