Edge launches new media exposé
April 02nd, 2025
Marc Edge will be launching his 7th book about the news media, Tomorrow’s News: How to Fix Canada’s Media (New Star $21) on April 14 in Vancouver.
In Tomorrow’s News, Marc Edge lays out some of the new forms of journalism that are emerging in the post-print, digital-first world. The bad include “dark money” funded non-profits, such as the US news outlet Richmond Standard, which have been rushing into the breech with “pink slime” (information that blurs the line between news and public relations). The good include worker co-operatives, such as CHEK-TV in Victoria, the Prince Albert Daily Herald, and CN2i in Quebec.
Tomorrow’s News also explores the potential of a voucher system as a financing mechanism for local news organizations. People will always be news hungry; journalism isn’t going away, Edge argues. The news organizations that thrive in the post-print world will be the ones that are able to shift their support base, and revenues, from advertisers to readers.
Event details:
Date and time: April 14, 7 pm
Location: People’s Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
About Marc Edge
Marc Edge worked as a legal affairs reporter for The Province (1983-93) and The Calgary Herald. As a former contributing writer for Hockey magazine, he also wrote Red Line, Blue Line, Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the National Hockey League and Its Players (New Star, 2004). Born in New Westminster, Edge has a Master of Labour and Industrial Relations degree from Michigan State University and a PhD in Mass Communication from Ohio University. He lives in Ladysmith.
Other books by Marc Edge:
-Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly (New Star Books, 2001)
-Red Line, Blue Line, Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the National Hockey League and Its Players (New Star, 2004)
-Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company (New Star, 2007) $21
-Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers (New Star, 2014) $21
-The News We Deserve: The Transformation of Canada’s Media Landscape (New Star, 2016)
-Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry (Routledge, 2022)
-The Postmedia Effect: How Vulture Capitalism is Wrecking Our News (New Star, 2023) $19
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