Silver began his career producing documentaries and wildlife films in South America and the American southwest.[2] His career in business news began at Bloomberg in 1997, where he worked as a senior television producer.[3] While at Bloomberg, Silver was nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for his work on Showdown on Secrecy, a series that explored conflicts of interest in the mutual fund industry.[4][5][6]
After seven years at Bloomberg, Silver joined CNN in 2004 as an assignment manager in the New York bureau. He went on to become a senior producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.[2]
In 2008, Silver joined CNNMoney.com, where he was named executive producer and led the site's online video production.[7][8] For their work on CNNMoney, Silver and his team were nominated for an Emmy Award for New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting in 2008.[9][10] The team also received an Eppy Award in 2012.[11]
In 2012, he returned to CNN as the director of US business news, where he oversaw all of CNN's US business coverage.[7]
Silver left CNN in 2014 to form Frog Pond Productions, a digital production and consulting company.[12] He joined Investopedia in January 2016 as the vice president of content, overseeing the site's editorial and video efforts.[13][14][15] He regularly appears as a financial expert on a variety of broadcast and radio programs, including MSNBC, Marketplace, NBC, ABC radio and Yahoo! Finance.[16][17][18][19]