"Edge is ideally suited to expose the maddening
state of the Canadian newspaper industry. His book on Canadian newspapers should be making the news, if any news can be found . . . required reading for anyone interested in discovering how and why Canadian print news has been hijacked."
Take 5 read review

"A malicious smear job.. . . He has two main story themes, both of which he mangles and distorts to suit his world view, which — as far as I can discern — boils down to classic leftist nonsense that cabals of think tanks and corporations control and monopolize Canadian media and politics."
National Post read review

"An uneven and at times messy overview of the state of the newspaper industry that lacks a strong central thesis. . . . Fails to comprehend or address the ongoing concerns on the loss of democracy if Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Saskatoon and Regina all lost their newspapers in one fell swoop."
Winnipeg Free Press read review

"B.C.-based journalist, author, and academic Marc Edge [is] the definitive chronicler of Canada’s journalistic travails. His seventh and latest book . . . tells us how we got here and provides a possible way forward too."
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“His research is meticulous. Edge names names at the Toronto Star, the Globe & Mail, the Canadian Association of Journalists, the works. The Postmedia Effect skewers Postmedia Network. . . . This whole scheme runs smoothly as long as everyone plays their part and keeps quiet about money changing hands. Marc Edge ruined everything.”

Blacklock's Reporter read review

"In a well-written but depressing 204 pages, Edge traces the emergence of Postmedia . . . Edge blames the chain . . . for turning to U.S.-based hedge funds to finance its dominant position in Canadian journalism. . . . According to Edge, the hedge funds have no interest in producing quality journalism."

AllNovaScotia.com

"Relentless, dogged, and thorough . . . all the culprits are exposed. . . . He knows how to follow the money trail with exhausting efficiency. . . . If you don’t believe our country’s print media are under constant attack by big money interests and hedge funds in the United States, turn any page of Edge’s well-researched and unstoppable probe and you will learn differently. . . . Edge’s book is not simply an exposé, it is a blistering indictment using facts not polemics"

British Columbia Review read revew

"Canadians haven’t paid much critical attention to their media industries. . . . Marc Edge is the exception to this lack of scrutiny. He has published extensively on the newspaper industry, and now has written The Postmedia Effect . . . Edge details the credit swaps, loans and debts typically used to acquire and hold media properties . . . His book is a valuable guide to anyone concerned about current media issues."

BC Bookworld read review

Edge "brings an obsessive quality to his dense documentation of the ways Postmedia has cut costs, harvested revenues, and broken promises to federal regulators that it would preserve the editorial independence of the titles it scooped up. He captures the suits at their villainy, the bureaucrats bumbling, the politicians uncertain of the wind direction"

Literary Review of Canada read review

"Marc Edge uses his consummate research of Postmedia Network in Canada to showcase the overall demise of the newspaper industry in Canada to hedge funds—the folks he calls “vulture capitalists.” While none of what he says is surprising, parts of it are quite shocking for the folks out in reader land, or anyone, really, to contemplate. . . . Luckily, while this is Edge’s seventh book, it is not expected to be his last. Edge now wants to tell the story not only of Canada’s bailouts of its print newsrooms but also how nonprofit journalism might be the best way forward. . . . Regardless of the stakes, Edge is the type of writer who looks at the industry with clear eyes and hope."

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