Marc Edge is an international journalism educator and media critic from Vancouver, Canada, who has taught at six universities in three countries. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He is the author of three books, the most recent being Asper Nation: Canada's Most Dangerous Media Company, which was published in 2007 by New Star Books. From 1974 until 1993, Marc was a newspaper journalist for the Vancouver Province and the Calgary Herald. After taking early retirement at age 38, Marc fulfilled a llong-time dream by sailing to the South Pacific aboard his 40-foot ketch, Markenurh. He then studied for his doctorate and taught at Ohio University, winning the 2002 Dissertation Award of the American Journalism Historians Association. His dissertation was published as his first book, Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver's Newspaper Monopoly. From 2001-04, Marc was an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Thompson Rivers University.