Marc Saltzman 
Marc Saltzman has reported on the high-tech industry since 1996 as a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality.
His specialties lie in consumer electronics, computers, Internet trends, video games and DVD/Blu-ray reviews.
Along with his weekly syndicated columns with Gannett ContentOne (formerly Gannett News Service), CNN.com, USAToday.com and CanWest Media, Marc currently contributes to nearly 50 prominent publications, including USA Today, CNN.com, AARP – The Magazine, The Costco Connection (U.S. and Canada), Toronto Star, Yahoo!, MSN.ca, URmagazine (Rogers Publishing), National Post, Microsoft Home, Common Sense Media, Inc.com, Playboy, Playboy.com, Movie Entertainment, Chill, Homefront, Crispy Gamer, Gamezebo, and others.
Gannett ContentOne is the USA’s largest newspaper group in terms of circulation. The company’s 85+ daily newspapers in the USA have a combined daily paid circulation of 7.8 million.
Sympatico MSN (www.msn.ca) is the most visited online destination in Canada with more than 19.5 million unique visitors per month (comScore Media Metrix).
Marc also writes a daily blog, Sync (sync-blog.com), which has won an award for Best Canadian Sci-Tech Blog (cdnba.wordpress.com) and contributes three times each week to the popular USA Today blog, Technology Live (technologylive.usatoday.com), and The Geek Weekly’s tech blog (thegeekweekly.com).
Marc Saltzman was one of the first journalists in the world to break open the MP3 phenomenon in late 1997 on CNN.com. He correctly predicted this controversial audio file format would revolutionize the recording industry.
In June 2006, Marc Saltzman was invited to join celebrities such as Donald Trump, Al Gore and Stephen Hawking to answer a question for the “Ask The Planet” promotion sponsored by Yahoo! Answers. Marc was tapped as a leading consumer technology expert.
His 14 books with Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill/Osborne are: Internet Games Directory (1996), Gamer’s Web Directory: Sites, Cheats and Secrets (1997), Quake II Strategy Master (1998), Game Design: Secrets of the Sages (1999), Game Design: Secrets of the Sages, Second Edition (2000), Game Design: Secrets of the Sages, Third Edition (2001), Marc Saltzman’s 250 Best Palm Games (2001, on CD), Marc Saltzman’s Top 300 Games for the PocketPC (2002, on CD), Game Design: Secrets of the Sages, Fourth Edition (2002), DVD Confidential: Hundreds of Hidden Easter Eggs Revealed (2002), Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts (2003), DVD Confidential 2: The Sequel (2003), The X-Play Insider’s Guide to Gaming (2004) and the White Collar Slacker’s Handbook: Tech Tricks to Fool Your Boss (2005).
Marc has also written video game manuals for Quake II and Sin, writing fiction for the game as well as contributing names for many of the weapons and creatures.
In May of 2001, Marc became a frequent technology expert at CNN, the Cable News Network. Marc is often an on-air guest to talk about an array of high-tech issues, be it Internet trends, video games, computers and consumer electronics. Marc is also a frequent guest on CNN Radio.
Marc writes and hosts “Gear Guide,” a technology-focused video that runs nationally across Canada at Cineplex Entertainment movie theaters (and IMAX theatres), five minutes before the film trailers start. This 2-minute clip airs daily on 1,650 theater screens, 6 times a day per screen, resulting in approximately 60 million impressions per year.
Marc is also the host of Gadgets and Gizmos and Super Software, two television shows seen on G4TechTV, and G3, a twice-a-week feature on the Morning News show in Canada, which airs on the Global Television Network. Marc has also made appearances as a high-tech expert on CBS, NBC, CNBC, KTLA, CNN Headline News, and in Canada, on CTV, CTV New Channel, CBC, CBC Newsworld, CityTV, Discovery Channel, Life Network, The Sports Network, CP24, TVOntario and others.
Marc also writes and hosts two radio shows. The first is “Tech Talk with Marc Saltzman,” on Canada’s most listened-to talk station, CFRB (1010AM in Toronto). The hour-long call-in program airs live on Sunday afternoons at 12pm noon (Eastern). CFRB’s parent company is Astral Media. The second radio program is “Plugged In with Marc Saltzman,” a nationally syndicated radio vignette (60-second interstitial) that airs daily Monday to Friday, on 30+ AM and FM radio stations across Canada, the U.S., the U.S. Armed Forces Network and on XM Satellite Radio’s NHL Centre Ice channel (roughly 2.5 million listeners daily).
Marc is one of the Game Critics Awards judges for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and is also a judge for the annual Spike TV Video Game Awards and the annual “Codie Awards” to recognize innovative software and online services.