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.
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