Awards
Writing Awards
I shared a Gold Medal in the Service: Personal Finance & Business category at the 2008 National Magazine Awards (Canada). The award was for a package of articles published in Report on Business magazine. In 2009, I received a Silver Medal in the Humour category for an article in Maisonneuve magazine.
My book, Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, won the 2008 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism (book) from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
My book, Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet and Why It's Still Broken, won the award for Canadian non-fiction crime book of the year at the Arthur Ellis Awards in 2009. The awards are given by the Crime Writers of Canada.
I received the Women's Press Club Scholarship for published work while studying journalism at Concordia University in Montreal.
Awards For RegretTheError.com
Regret the Error was a finalist for Best Blog at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
Regret the Error was listed as one of the Top 25 Blogs in Time.com's First Annual Blog Index. Read the entry here.
Regret the Error was listed as one of the best media blogs in Forbes.com's Best of The Web directory.
Regret the Error was named one of the Yahoo! Picks of the Year. Read the entry here.
Welcome
Hey there. Thanks for stopping by. I'm a freelance journalist and author in Montreal, Canada. I serve as an associate editor for PBS MediaShift, a website that reports on trends in new media and journalism. I edit RegretTheError.com and wrote a book of the same name. I'm also the co-author, with Michael Calce, of Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet and Why It's Still Broken. Both books are listed to the right.
I write weekly columns for Hour and Columbia Journalism Review online, and am a former columnist and blogger for The Globe And Mail. Read my bio by clicking on the "About Me" link above, or check out the "Writing Samples" page to read some of my work. If you're interested in speaking with me about an assignment or project, email me at the address listed below.
Recent Writing/Work