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Marc Edge

@marcedge1

Sessional Instructor in Media and Communication at University Canada West in Vancouver, media columnist for Canadian Dimension, and author of eight books.

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the Texas chapter of non-profit journalism funder Press Forward will focus its efforts on rural and local news in that state's South-Central area, where news deserts are rampant poynter.org/business-work/…

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It appears Oregon avoided news suicide, nixing terrible legislation from hedge-fund lobbyists that could have resulted in Meta & Google ending links to news. Sanity prevailed. Oregon Senate rejects bill making big tech pay for local journalism lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/governme…

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The Hub's feature today "It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding" was made possible by Irving Shipbuilding because of course it was #cdnmedia thehub.ca/2025/06/26/dee…

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Generative AI assisted in the writing of an article in The Hub today, it notes . . . could that explain this whopper? "Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest." thehub.ca/2025/07/03/rud…

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the Hearst chain has bought the Dallas Morning News for $75 million to add to its dailies in Houston, San Antonio and Austin . . . Hearst bought the Austin American-Statesman for an estimated $70 million in February #newspapers poynter.org/business-work/…

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Straight Arrow News has more than doubled its audience by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why journalism.co.uk/news/-why-didn…

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is making so much money that it has authorized a new US$1 billion Stock Repurchase Program and it intends to accelerate the pace of its buyback newscorp.com/2025/07/15/new…