David Silverberg, a longtime journalist who was a Defense News reporter early in his career, has been picked to lead C4ISR & Networks as its new editor.
“David brings deep journalistic experience and market knowledge to the role for C4ISR & Networks, and is keen to expand the innovative multimedia projects that C4ISR &Networks is known for,” said David Smith, vice president and general manager of Sightline Media Group. “We feel very fortunate to have an editor of his caliber for the brand, and believe he will take C4ISR & Networks to its next level of growth in the dynamic C4ISR and defense IT sector.”
Silverberg also worked for Armed Forces Journal International and the Hill before taking the lead at Homeland Defense Journal in 2003. Silverberg oversaw the transformation of the title from a PDF download to a full-fledged magazine, and then went on to co-found Homeland Security Today, a multimedia homeland security venture, where he stayed as founding editor for nine years.
Most recently, Silverberg has been working as an independent journalist based in Naples, Florida.
It’s a sense of potential that drew Silverberg to C4ISR & Networks, he said.
“I like launches. This is, in effect, a launch,” he said. “Whenever you have a launch, you have a blank slate, which is where I do my best.”
C4ISR & Networks, along with the rest of Sightline Media Group, is under new ownership. Internally, the group is reorganizing to add Defense News to C4ISR and Federal Times in a business-to-business group. The changes give Silverberg a launch pad for new directions.
Those new directions will include a heavy emphasis on digital media, including video and other multimedia tools. Though he learned his craft during the final years of print media dominance, Silverberg embraces the new world that technological advancement is creating. He calls the resulting mix of technologies used to convey information a “media cloud,” a rapidly-changing universe that opens many new possibilities.
“You can’t control the cloud, but you can push it in a certain direction,” he said.
