14/12/24 ‘Goliath vs. Goliath’ media battle Read
02/12/24 Interview with Ben Mulroney Listen
02/12/24 The Hub trades in sponsored content Read
29/11/24 Tech Titans Should Pay Read the Walrus
25/11/24 Canada’s media must be refashioned Read
31/10/24 Justin Trudeau’s one-word answer Read
17/10/24 Postmedia’s cuts begin to hurt Read
16/10/24 How the bottom fell out of our media Read
08/10/24 Beheaded babies were propaganda Read
06/10/24 News pollution is more dangerous Read
16/09/24 BC Conservatives attack the media Read
10/09/24 Russian scandal could hurt Cons Read
04/09/24 Could I go to prison for writing this? Read
26/08/24 Conservatives find media a minefield Read
14/08/24 I finally made Editor & Publisher! Read
14/08/24 CBC bonuses uproar ignores realities Read
12/08/24 Journalism in Canada seems arbitrary Read
09/08/24 Author looks at solutions for media Read
31/07/24 Handouts are getting out of hand Read
29/07/24 Postmedia's coast-to-coast monopoly Read
19/07/24 Old journalists need to get over it Read
17/07/24 Vouchers could help to revive news Read
16/07/24 Marian Hebb Research Grant Read
15/07/24 Why shouldn’t media get subsidies? Read
20/06/24 Can a newspaper commit treason? Listen
18/06/24 Cultural lobby serves corporate greed Read
13/06/24 If NSICOP won’t name media, I will Read
12/06/24 Newbies unite with Facebook group Read
10/06/24 Google chooses independent group Read
06/06/24 The Epoch Times is on the ropes Read
02/06/24 Trying to put genie back in bottle Read
12/05/24 Is The Hub the future of journalism? Read
19/04/24 We seem to have a book title Here it is
18/04/24 Could co-op news save the media? Read
10/04/24 US news is infected by 'pink slime’ Read
29/03/24 Nonprofit news may not be so great Read
13/03/24 Not your grandfather’s journalism Read
11/03/24 The Online News Act is like MAiD Read
19/02/24 Corporate ownership has failed Read
11/02/24 Eby says the true part out loud Read
08/02/24 Asper’s media control lives on Read
29/01/24 Is journalism really dying? Read column
28/01/24 Jeff Jarvis is coming around Substack
23/01/24 Liberal Studies talk is propaganda Read
18/01/24 Black Press sold to U.S. owners Read
15/01/24 The Post should not lecture on bias Read
08/01/24 Bogeyman of interference explodes Read
23/12/23 Progressive journos form Unrigged Read
20/12/23 CTV News brings in a propagandist Read
20/12/23 Canada’s news media need a plan Read
05/12/23 Google millions bring hope for news Read
03/12/23 Sim-sub being used to push betting Read
27/11/23 Ottawa doubles news media bailout Read
21/11/23 Trudeau interview reveals sad truth Read
20/11/23 Is the News Industry Broken? Watch
19/11/23 Re: Cruickshank's “Paper Rout” Read
06/11/23 Limit media sports betting promos Read
03/11/23 Canada’s media a cautionary tale Read
30/10/23 Demise will impact older readers Read
29/10/23 Closure leaves town without a paper Read
25/10/23 Ad in the last Kamloops This Week See
20/10/23 Campaign reveals news corruption Read
06/10/23 Press freedom is slipping away Read
01/10/23 Predatory owners suck the marrow Read
27/09/23 Rupert Murdoch changed the world Read
24/09/23 Metroland bankruptcy smells highly Read
23/09/23 Peter C. Newman was a plagiarist Read
20/09/23 The efficiencies defence is dead Read
13/09/23 Answering John Cruickshank Read
10/09/23 Cruickshank: "I think he is wrong" Read
06/09/23 Twist could see media owe millions Read
31/08/23 National magazine: Over the cliff Read
29/08/23 Postmedia uses junk science Read column
26/08/23 "A blistering indictment using facts" Read
21/08/23 Is Amazon donation "greenmail?" Read
15/08/23 Action would confirm the fix is in Read
07/08/23 Chains badly overplayed their hand Read
27/07/23 Panel at SFU Harbour Centre Watch
24/07/23 I made the news just for tweeting Read
24/07/23 Canada’s old media cling to power Read
23/07/23 Q&A witth Tara Henley Lean Out Read
22/07/23 "Marc Edge ruined everything" Read
16/07/23 Interview on CityNews Bookshelf Read
12/07/23 Ottawa blinks on Bill C-18 Read column
06/07/23 Ottawa, Meta escalate schoolyard spat Read
28/06/23 Merger may help restore competition Read
28/06/23 Interview on CBC radio All in a Day Listen
27/06/23 Panel discussion @ SFU Downtown Read
27/06/23 Interview with Ben O’Hara-Byrne Listen
26/06/23 Law Bytes pod with Michael Geist Listen
25/06/23 Answering an unhinged T. Corcoran Read
23/06/23 Corcoran: "A malicious smear job" Read
21/06/23 Journalism's Golden Age: WTF? Read
19/06/23 Glavin: A Platform for My Enemy Read
16/06/23 Bell layoffs show media need revamp Read
15/06/23 My interview on SiriusXM radio Listen
13/06/23 Postmedia is in a crash dive – let it die Read
12/06/23 The Postmedia Effect presentation Watch
10/06/23 Google & Facebook may be stealing Read
02/06/23 New media need Google & Facebook Read
31/05/23 Trust us? You have got to be kidding Read
07/05/23 The end of press freedom in Canada? Read
30/04/23 Available Now The Postmedia Effect Read
24/04/23 Google argues for a media fund Read
18/04/23 Chapter 1 of The Postmedia Effect Read
14/04/23 New blog for The Postmedia Effect Read
12/04/23 Canada’s media always get their way Read
06/04/23 Quality newspapers are here to stay Read
04/04/23 Hockey magazine writer 1978-82 Read
29/03/23 Financialization is the business model Read
22/03/23 Canada on a path to totalitarianism Read
13/03/23 Google may be a victim of success Read
07/03/23 MPs don’t know the Internet Read
24/01/23 Postmedia shoots more hostages Read
04/01/23 Ruling shows reform badly needed Read
26/12/22 The myth of an online ad monopoly Read
09/12/22 How to fund journalism in Canada Read
08/12/22 I am excerpted on Press Gazette Read
28/11/22 Could a UK system help Canada? Read
17/11/22 Canada needs a news strategy Read
13/11/22 Telecom giants dominate media Read
11/11/22 Busting media myths My new series
10/11/22 Re-examining UK Newspapers Preview
31/10/22 Meta witnesses get hostile reception Read
24/10/22 Could Google, Meta quit Canada? Read
04/10/22 U.S. hedge fund bet may pay off big Read
30/09/22 Where have all the newspapers gone? Read
25/09/22 Going all Howard Beale on the media Read 09/08/22 Groups lobbying for Internet controls Read
25/07/22 The Postmedia Effect My next book
21/07/22 Re-examining UK Newspapers New book
22/06/22 Canada headed down a slippery slope Read
17/06/22 Marian Hebb Research Grant recipient Read
13/06/22 My ranking has slipped to #621,080 Read
03/06/22 Ottawa should reject Murdoch plan Read
26/04/22 Sustainability of local journalism Read
11/04/22 Gov't, media double down on lies Read
23/02/22 Interview on a CBC News podcast Listen
23/02/22 Expect more conservative news Read
22/11/21The great Canadian media swindle Read
12/11/21 Journalism has "been weaponized" Read
30/10/21 The Devil and Mr. Hughes This is true
10/09/21 "Canadians are not stupid" Canadaland
09/09/21 Greatly Exaggerated in Canada CJC article
08/09/21 My submission to Heritage ministry Read
24/08/21 The election issue media won't report Read
18/07/21 I am ranked #603,380 in the world Read
30/05/21 Je suis malhereuse, tres malhereuse Watch
26/05/21 We who live on water lack protection Read
18/05/21 Markenurh is for sale Read the classified
07/05/21 I am being cruelly evicted Read the letter
15/03/21 Call it the Curse of Rogers Island Read
02/02/21 When $10 billion profit is not enough Read
19/11/20 Media profits keep going up Read my blog
11/11/20 Nordstar going all-out for cash My blog
22/09/20 Grubby and I are at it again Read his blog
02/09/20 I get to make my correction. Read letter
08/08/20 Diverging data in a media bailout AEJMC
30/06/20 Enabling Postmedia Read CJC article
17/06/20 Petition on foreign media ownership Click
09/06/20 What Torontonians are finding out Read
06/06/20 What private equity firms do Read my blog
19/05/20 My new blog – Canucks Edge Read now
17/05/20 My reply to John Miller Read my blog
21/04/20 My submission to the House of Lords Read
18/03/20 A petition to the House of Commons Read
10/03/20 Marking 40 Years of the NRJ Read papers
11/11/19 Michael Geist podcast interview Listen
12/09/19 What if newspapers aren't dying? Read
03/09/19 My review of The Tangled Garden Read
08/08/19 Why are newspapers still here? AEJMC
05/06/19 Greatly Exaggerated in Canada CCA paper
16/03/19 A long wait Letter to the Times of Malta
12/03/19 How to fix Canada's biggest problem Read
12/02/19 Quoted in Cairncross Review report Read
04/02/19 Are UK newspapers really dying? Read
17/12/18 Conspiracy to Commit Murder? Read
12/10/18 My reply to John Honderich Read blog
06/06/18 My reply to Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Read
01/06/18 Blog wars in Fiji Read JNZPS article
29/05/18 My interview in the Malta Independent
28/05/18 The News We Deserve reviewed in CJC
18/05/18 Death by natural causes or murder? Read
09/05/18 Economists as "rock stars" WMEC paper
01/05/18 Caught black, white and read handed. Read
08/02/18 I co-founded a classic car club 41 years ago
18/01/18 Diversity among editors Letter to the Times
17/01/18 Not Joseph’s best day Truth Be Told blog
16/01/18 Ruling makes need for reform urgent Read
13/01/18 My first media interview in Malta Watch
11/01/18 This piece has gone worldwide WAN blog
03/01/18 I am reprinted in the Toronto Star Read
02/01/18 I am reprinted in the National Post Read
01/01/18 Year of reckoning looms for media Read
19/12/17 Biases and Controlled Journalism Read
17/12/17 News as Hazardous Waste CJC article
16/12/17 Death of newspapers exaggerated Read
12/12/17 A letter to the Star (unpublished) Read
04/12/17 MaKS research seminar Announcement
27/11/17 Marching Toward Media Monopolies Read
10/10/17 My response to Edward Greenspon Read
01/09/17 ‘Netflix Tax’ Is a Misnomer Monitor/Tyee
15/08/17 Death by Natural Causes or Murder? Read
11/07/17 "Classic anti-competitive behaviour.” Read
04/06/17 Ryerson local news conference panel Watch
02/04/17 A letter to the Globe (unpublished) Read
24/03/17 'NW interview with Steele and Drex Listen
18/03/17 This is fake news about the news. Sad! Read
13/02/17 TNWD longlisted for Ryga Award Read
10/02/17 Shattered into a million pieces My new blog
06/02/17 My response to the Greenspon report Read
04/02/17 “An important ... provoking primer" Read
31/12/16 I get a piece of fan mail thanking me Read
21/12/16 “Incendiary & subversive research” Read
17/12/16 Greatly Exaggerated full PDF posted Read
15/12/16 News You Can Use (To Get Angry) Blog
14/12/16 On the Line with Joseph Planta Listen
05/12/16 The News We Deserve Read Tyee excerpt
29/11/16 Bad News, Bad Newspapers? Listen
24/11/16 The News We Deserve Read Introduction
17/11/16 Bad News, Bad Newspapers? Media panel
20/09/16 Media Disrupters Have a Manifesto Read
15/08/16 UCW scholar pens new critiques Read
12/08/16 Review of CHEK Republic HTML PDF
17/07/16 Presentation attracts counter-buturaki Read
16/07/16 Digital buturaki Read WJEC paper
01/07/15 Special media issue of The Monitor Read
30/06/16 Can Canada’s media be fixed? Read
23/06/16 The News We Deserve Announcement
30/05/16 In Memoriam: David R. Spencer Read obit
30/05/16 The Never-ending Story Read article
30/05/16 Interview on CFAX radio in Victoria Listen
28/05/16 News As Hazardous Waste Read article
26/05/16 Critic targets newspaper mergers Read
12/03/16 Chief media apologist sings the blues Read
26/02/16 Re: “Paper Hanging,” by Paul Knox Read
23/02/16 Letter the National Post won't publish Read
10/02/16 Crash to Paywall Read Book Review
10/02/16 Reprinted on the World News blog Read
06/02/16 I have been nominated for an award Read
02/02/16 Postmedia’s promises worthless Read
28/01/16 Can Canadian journalism survive? CBC
28/01/16 Rumours of newspapers' demise . . . Read
23/01/16 Seeking a villain for Postmedia crisis? Read
20/01/16 Bureau won't review Postmedia move Read

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Marc Edge is a Canadian journalist, author, and academic. He has taught at universities in five countries and is the author of seven books. Pacific Press (2001) was based on his doctoral thesis at Ohio University, which won the annual dissertation award of the American Journalism Historians Association. His 2007 sequel Asper Nation was called “a must read for anyone who aspires to active and informed Canadian citizenship” by the Globe and Mail and was shortlisted for the Gertrude Robinson Book Prize of the Canadian Communication Association. Greatly Exaggerated (2014) showed that newspapers in the U.S. and Canada were not losing money as widely believed. The News We Deserve (2016) was described by the Georgia Straight as “incendiary and subversive research” and was longlisted for the George Ryga Award given annually to a book by a B.C. author that shows outstanding social awareness. From 1974 to 1993, Marc was a reporter and copy editor for the Vancouver Province and the Calgary Herald. After taking early retirement at age 38, he fulfilled a long-time dream by sailing to the South Pacific aboard his 40-foot ketch, Markenurh. He then studied for his doctorate and taught in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. From 2001-04, Marc was an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University from 2007-2011 and Head of Journalism at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji for 18 months from 2011-2012 before drawing the ire of that country's military dictatorship. He was named Roger Tatarian Endowed Faculty Scholar in Journalism at California State University, Fresno in 2014. He taught at University Canada West from 2015-17 and the University of Malta from 2017-2020. His teaching career ended with pandemic, and he semi-retired to Vancouver Island, where he is writing more than ever before as media columnist for Canadian Dimension, which has published since 1963 and does not take media bailout money.