CRAIG SILVERMAN

It’s really obnoxious when somebody slacks off with their blog, only to reappear with a post that’s about how they’re a finalist for an award.
Totally rude, totally annoying, totally what I’m doing right now.
But wait!
I have some big news that I’ll be sharing here later this week. News that’s only a little bit about me. It’s really about online news …

I’m still recovering from last week’s festivities and surprises.
This recovery process included sleeping for 12 hours last night, which is almost unheard of for me, and spending most of yesterday afternoon and evening lying on a couch and trying to avoid anything resembling work. Last week was the MagNet/PWAC conference, the National Magazine Awards, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. I …

Well, this has been a rewarding week. On Tuesday, for the second year in a row, I was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Then, yesterday, I discovered that my second book is nominated for Canada’s best non-fiction crime book. The CBC has a story about the Crime Writers of Canada’s annual Arthur Ellis Awards:
Crime Writers of Canada, the organizers …

I came home from my regular Tuesday night boxing class at Blue Cat to discover that I had been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Yeah, welcome home to me. This being 2009, I found out via Twitter thanks to a message from Kim Pittaway. (She’s nominated for three awards! I’m a total underachiever.) Here’s the full list of nominees.
You …

I’m back from attending the National Press Club Awards Dinner in Washington on Monday. I spent the morning at the Newseum, and you can read my report about it here. I also had lunch with Slate’s Jack Shafer.
That evening, I attended the awards dinner and was lucky enough to meet two other winners in the press criticism category: David Folkenflik, …

Well, it’s been a rewarding few weeks for me. Allow me to take a moment and toot my own horn.
On June 6, I shared a gold medal at the Canadian National Magazine Awards for my work on the Corporate Survival Guide published in Report on Business magazine.The award is shared with Mark Schatzker, Sabitri Ghosh, and Lisa Fielding. Here’s the …

The nominees for the Canadian National Magazine Awards were revealed last night and I received a nod for my work on Report on Business magazine’s Corporate Survival Guide, which was published last fall. It’s my first NMA nomination and I’m extremely pleased. I’m also happy that my friends Martin Patriquin (Maclean’s) and Giancarlo La Giorgia (freelance) received nominations. The awards …