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Sessional Instructor in Media and Communication at University Canada West and columnist for Canadian Dimension. Author of eight books, including The Postmedia Effect (2023) and Tomorrow's News: How to Fix Canada's Media (2024). Find me at www.marcedge.com.
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Teen Vogue gives the lowdown on police propaganda a/k/a "copaganda" www.teenvogue.com/story/copaga...

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Oregon legislators will vote Monday on their Journalism Protection Act, which like Canada's Online News Act seeks to force digital platforms to pay publishers for linking to news stories . . . it is called here a "Stone-Age Approach to Save Journalism" truthonthemarket.com/2025/05/01/o...

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Canada has slipped again in the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters sans frontières (to which I am a respondent) . . . we fell on all indicators, ie. economic, political, social, etc. . . . from 14th in the world last year, we now sit 21st #cdnmedia rsf.org/en/country/c...

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of the $22.2 million in Google funding distributed to #cdnmedia so far in 2025, U.S. hedge fund owned Postmedia Network received $4,268,319.33, or more than double the next largest recipient, the Canadian-owned Globe and Mail, which got $2,062,409.41 cjc-ccj.ca/en/

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Trump's assault on press freedom in the U.S. follows the blueprint of the highly successful program of media repression pioneered by a leading European authoritarian leader theconversation.com/trumps-first...

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an interview I did recently with Pacifica Radio's Media & Democracy program will be broadcast on its network of more than 200 community radio stations next week, but the video and a written summary have now been posted on Wikiversity en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Canadia...

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“an incredibly dense but approachable write up on modernized and constantly shifting media. It seems we are indeed in big trouble . . . it’s difficult to find news content you can trust” #cdnmedia thebcreview.ca/2025/04/26/2...

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How the Online News Act came back to haunt the federal election Meta’s ban on posting links to real news has allowed hyper-partisan misinformation and disinformation to flourish #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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An FT analysis of more than 350,000 election posts on X "revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney." #cdnmedia www.ft.com/content/743c...

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"In truth, J.D. Vance’s best friend really doesn’t want anyone to know he’s J.D. Vance’s best friend — not now that he’s running for Canadian parliament" #cdnmedia www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“bot-like” social media accounts targeted Liberal Leader Mark Carney in the lead-up to the federal election, according to an analysis . . . disinformation represent a “threat to Canada’s democracy and risk influencing the upcoming federal election” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

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"The Globe and Mail Foundation will seek to raise funding that will be used to hold events, create training programs and carry out research. It aims to ensure that Canadians continue to have access to quality journalism, and to strengthen public trust in media." nmc-mic.ca/2025/04/24/t...

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I will be interviewing tomorrow with Radioactive, a locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis. Here is their promo. kkfi.org/program-epis...

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"Travel expenses for The Hub’s election coverage are made possible by the Public Policy Forum, the Rideau Hall Foundation, and the Michener Awards Foundation." thehub.ca/2025/04/23/i...

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the Conservative election platform released today promises to introduce a Freedom of Speech Act to repeal Liberal "censorship laws" and restore Canadian news on Meta and other platforms #cdnmedia www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/04/22/c...

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Paris-based press freedom watchdog Reporters sans frontières (RSF) is calling on federal candidates to make specific commitments to the long-term sustainability of quality, independent journalism #cdnmedia rsf.org/en/canada-rs...

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NY Times: As Election Nears, Canadians Confront a News Void on Facebook and Instagram After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as Canada Proud has filled the gap #cdnmedia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/t...

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Rebel News again proves that it’s not doing journalism If Ezra Levant wants to play politics, he should do so as a politician and see how well his extreme views go over with voters #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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someone needs to tell Peter Menzies that a block quote is meant to be other people's words, and not written in the first person . . . I'd tell him, but he's blocked me #cdnmedia petermenzies.substack.com/p/media-melt...

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Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is getting an easier ride at media events during the current election than Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney, an analysis by The Maple finds. #cdnmedia www.readthemaple.com/poilievre-ge...

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Media research in Canada leaves much to be desired The lack of reliable data has enabled media owners to easily bamboozle Ottawa #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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Breathing new life into local UK media There is a new generation of entrepreneurs launching local media businesses, bringing with them new ideas on business models and funding www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/bre...

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