Marc Edge
Stories by Marc Edge
Ottawa’s Last Chance to End the Gutting of Canada’s Newspapers
Competition Bureau has ignored public interest as corporations created media monopolies.
Postmedia, Torstar Marching Toward Media Monopolies
Journalism suffers as corporations swap papers to end competition.
The ‘Netflix Tax’ Is a Misnomer Used to Smear a Great Idea
Don’t believe Big Media, or the big cable companies behind them, which slag a logical way to fund new journalism.
Big Idea for Canadian Media: Provide Incentives for Local Ownership
Absentee owners shouldn’t be the norm. Excerpted from Marc Edge’s book, ‘The News We Deserve’
Canada’s Media Disrupters Have a New Manifesto
In ‘No News is Bad News,’ Ian Gill finds ‘huge opportunity’ in our hollowed-out industry.
Seeking a Villain for Postmedia's Crisis? Try the Competition Bureau
It sat back and watched as media consolidated in too few hands. Will Trudeau stop the madness?
Don't Give Postmedia More Local Monopolies
Here's an idea for the Competition Bureau: promote competition.
BC's Local News Monopolies Grow with Recent Closures
Glacier's Kamloops paper shut down despite company profit margins above 30 per cent.
US Hedge Funds Squeezing Profitable Postmedia: Union
As media giant makes 17 per cent profit, Sun, Province publisher says more fat to cut.
Media Wars in Paradise
Fiji's dictator pledges democracy, but just try being a journalist who criticizes him.
Sorry Genius, for Old Media the Sky Is Not Falling
Newspaper companies are doing just fine, thanks. Journalists, not so much.
Yes, Conrad Black, You're a Crook
That's what people tend to be called when they remain convicted of fraud and have served time.
Le Journal Lockout: Convergence Conquers Workers
Owner Quebecor crushed labour ruthlessly, even though its newspapers are earning lots of profit.
As Advertising Dies, So Do Traditional Media
But author Bob Garfield predicts a golden age of online marketing is about to bloom.
The Asper Slam on News Media
'Lazy, dishonest, biased, Marxists' and more accusations from Izzy and son Leonard.
How Black and Asper Plotted to Control Canadian News Biz
Lusting for 'awesome and infinite' deals with Thomson, Rogers, Shaw.
Blame the Owners
Sure players are rich. But their greedier bosses never learned to share, and shun laws of economics.
