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Craig Silverman

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Craig Silverman
Silverman in 2017
Born
Nova Scotia, Canada
Alma materConcordia University
OccupationJournalist

Craig Silverman is a Canadian journalist and a reporter at ProPublica.[1] He was previously the media editor of BuzzFeed and the head of BuzzFeed's Canadian division. Known as an expert in "fake news",[2][3] he founded the "Regret the Error" blog in 2004, covering fact-checking and media inaccuracy, and authored a 2009 book of the same name, which won the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism from the National Press Club.

In 2011 he joined the Poynter Institute for Media Studies as an adjunct faculty member.[4][5] He also founded the hoax and rumor tracking website Emergent[6] and co-authored a biography of Michael Calce, the hacker known as MafiaBoy.[7] He received a 2013 Mirror Award for Best Commentary, Digital Media.[8]

Born in Nova Scotia, Silverman is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (Bachelor of Arts in journalism[9]) and moved to Toronto to join BuzzFeed.[10]

Craig Silverman also had a kid in 2011 named Finn Silverman. He currently lives in Toronto, and is now going to school in the Parkdale community.

References

  1. ^ "Craig Silverman". ProPublica. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. ^ Ingram, Mathew (2 December 2016). "BuzzFeed Names Fake News Expert Craig Silverman as Its First Media Editor". Fortune.
  3. ^ Moses, Lucia (20 February 2017). "Day in the life: How BuzzFeed's Craig Silverman debunks fake news". Digiday.
  4. ^ Silverman, Craig (19 December 2011). "About Regret the Error". Poynter.
  5. ^ Houpt, Simon (24 April 2015). "BuzzFeed hires author of award-winning book on journalistic errors to head Canadian team". The Globe and Mail.
  6. ^ Levy, Karyne (14 October 2014). "Emergent debunks internet rumors in real time". StopFake.
  7. ^ Goss, Doug (15 August 2011). "'Mafiaboy' breaks silence, paints 'portrait of a hacker'". CNN. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  8. ^ Loughlin, Wendy S. (5 June 2013). "Newhouse announces winners in 2013 Mirror Awards competition". Newhouse School | Syracuse University. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Looking at the future of journalism". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  10. ^ Shea, Courtney (3 March 2017). "Q&A: Craig Silverman, the Buzzfeed editor who helped make "fake news" a household phrase". Toronto Life.


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Silverman