User:HS Editor
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David Silverberg is editor of HSToday, the leading monthly magazine of homeland security insight and analysis.
David Silverberg is a respected veteran Washington writer and editor with experience in homeland security, defense, technology, congressional affairs and publication management. He is the founding editor of the premier monthly magazine of homeland security insight and analysis, HSToday, which launched in May 2004. He conceived all the publication’s departments and features and led its coverage at a time when the homeland security field was in its infancy. To do this he built both national and international teams of correspondents. In 2004, HSToday was recognized with two awards for editorial excellence by the American Society of Business Publication Editors, an extraordinary achievement for a startup publication. It has also defined its field and created a genre of homeland security policy publications.
Silverberg conceived and launched other publications that proved authoritative in their fields. In April 2003 he turned an online PDF e-newsletter into the monthly magazine Homeland Defense Journal and developed its supporting organization and website. In 1998 he conceived, helped launch and edited the magazine Military Information Technology for the firm Kerrigan Media International. The same year he founded his own magazine, The Journal of Information Policy.
As a reporter and editor he has reported for the leading publications in their fields: Defense News, where he covered international trade and technology issues from 1986 to 1993, and Armed Forces Journal, where he was editor at large from 1993 to 1997. He also served as executive editor of the magazines Military Training Technology and Missiles & Munitions.
From 1999 to 2002 he served as managing editor of the weekly newspaper The Hill, covering Congress. During that time he authored the book Congress for Dummies, published in October 2002, part of the popular Dummies series, as a comprehensive and accessible guide to the US Congress. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications from the popular to the academic including The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Silverberg has also made numerous media appearances and appeared on such broadcast programs as The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, All Things Considered, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and CNN.
