Craig Silverman

{{Short description|Canadian journalist}}

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Craig Silverman is a Canadian journalist and a reporter at ProPublica.{{Cite web |title=Craig Silverman |author= |work=ProPublica |date= |access-date=25 October 2021 |url= https://www.propublica.org/people/craig-silverman}} He was previously the media editor of BuzzFeed and the head of BuzzFeed's Canadian division. Known as an expert in "fake news",{{cite web|last1=Ingram|first1=Mathew|title=BuzzFeed Names Fake News Expert Craig Silverman as Its First Media Editor|url=http://fortune.com/2016/12/02/buzzfeed-media-editor/|website=Fortune|language=en|date=December 2, 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Moses|first1=Lucia|title=Day in the life: How BuzzFeed's Craig Silverman debunks fake news|url=https://digiday.com/media/day-life-buzzfeeds-craig-silverman-debunks-fake-news/|website=Digiday|date=20 February 2017}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Silverman|first1=Craig|title=About Regret the Error|url=https://www.poynter.org/news/about-regret-error|website=Poynter|language=en|date=December 19, 2011}}{{cite news|last1=Houpt|first1=Simon|title=BuzzFeed hires author of award-winning book on journalistic errors to head Canadian team|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/buzzfeed-hires-author-of-award-winning-book-on-journalistic-errors-to-head-canadian-team/article24096722/|work=The Globe and Mail|date=April 24, 2015}} He also founded the hoax and rumor tracking website Emergent{{cite news | url=https://www.stopfake.org/en/emergent-debunks-internet-rumors-in-real-time/ | title=Emergent debunks internet rumors in real time | first=Karyne | last=Levy | work=StopFake | date=October 14, 2014}} and co-authored a biography of Michael Calce, the hacker known as MafiaBoy.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/15/mafiaboy.hacker/index.html|title='Mafiaboy' breaks silence, paints 'portrait of a hacker'|last=Goss|first= Doug|work=CNN|date=August 15, 2011|access-date=2018-02-22|language=en}} He received a 2013 Mirror Award for Best Commentary, Digital Media.{{cite web|last1=Loughlin|first1=Wendy S.|title=Newhouse announces winners in 2013 Mirror Awards competition|url=http://newhouse.syr.edu/news-events/news/newhouse-announces-winners-2013-mirror-awards-competition|website=Newhouse School {{!}} Syracuse University|language=en|date=June 5, 2013|access-date=22 February 2018|archive-date=22 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222165400/http://newhouse.syr.edu/news-events/news/newhouse-announces-winners-2013-mirror-awards-competition|url-status=dead}}

Born in Nova Scotia, Silverman is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (Bachelor of Arts in journalism{{Cite web|url=https://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/offices/vpaer/aar/2016/02/10/looking-at-the-future-of-journalism.html?c=/alumni-friends/news|title=Looking at the future of journalism|website=www.concordia.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-02-21}}) and moved to Toronto to join BuzzFeed.{{cite news|last1=Shea|first1=Courtney|title=Q&A: Craig Silverman, the Buzzfeed editor who helped make "fake news" a household phrase|url=https://torontolife.com/city/toronto-politics/qa-craig-silverman-buzzfeed-editor-helped-make-fake-news-household-phrase/|work=Toronto Life|date=3 March 2017}}