The Tyee

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The Tyee is a Canadian online web magazine, which focuses on coverage of news and media issues in British Columbia.

The Tyee was launched in November of 2003 by David Beers, a journalist who had previously been associated with the Vancouver Sun. Other journalists currently associated with The Tyee include Rafe Mair, Murray Dobbin, Steve Burgess, Ryan Austin, Will McMartin and Barbara McLintock.

The site is currently one of Canada's most widely read sources of alternative journalism on the web.[citation needed] In October 2005, it claimed 130,000 unique visitors made 400,000 visits and looked at roughly one million pages.[1]

In 2007, the Canadian Journalism Foundation gave The Tyee an Honorable Mention for Excellence in Journalism for Small, Medium or Local Media, a new category which included online media with less than 500,000 unique visitors a month. [2]

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[edit] 100 Mile Diet

Main article: 100-Mile Diet

On January 28, 2005, The Tyee published the first article on The 100 Mile Diet -- A Year of Local Eating by James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith. The Tyee's coverage of their one-year cultural experience -- only eating food grown or produced within a 100 mile radius -- attracted attention from online communities and major media. The project resulted in a book deal.

[edit] Journalism fellowships

In February, 2006 the Tyee launched two charitable funds to help pay journalists and provide stories not covered in the mainstream media. The Tyee Investigative Fellowship Fund provides grants for journalists doing in-depth, investigative pieces, and the Tyee Solutions Fellowship Funds provides money for those exploring successful innovations in the areas of ecological sustainability, equality and economic vibrancy. Between December, 2005, when the fund was first announced, and February when it was launched, they raised about $36,000 dollars, about $21,000 from reader donations and $15,000 from Endswell Fund at Tides Canada Foundation, who matched readers donations up until that point. [3]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Some straight talk on Vancouver's weekly newspaper war, By Aaron Leaf, Ryerson Journalism Review, November 2005, Retrieved on May 30, 200
  2. ^ Tyee Receives National Honour, www.TheTyee.ca, June 11, 2007
  3. ^ David Beers (2006). Tyee Fellowships Launched. The Tyee. Retrieved on 2007-06-02.
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