About Me

silverman05webSMI'm a freelance journalist and author in Montreal, Canada.

This site is where I share some of my recent work, and the occasional thought that pops into my head. 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 work as an associate editor at 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 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. 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 the Regional Director of Quebec for the Professional Writers Association of Canada and am a member of the Board of Directors of the Concordia Journalism Alumni Association.