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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 the Endswell Fund at Tides Canada Foundation, which matched readers' donations up until that point.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/02/19/FellowshipsLaunched/ | title = Tyee Fellowships Launched | publisher = The Tyee | author = David Beers | year = 2006 | accessdate = 2007-06-02}}</ref> |
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 the Endswell Fund at Tides Canada Foundation, which matched readers' donations up until that point.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/02/19/FellowshipsLaunched/ | title = Tyee Fellowships Launched | publisher = The Tyee | author = David Beers | year = 2006 | accessdate = 2007-06-02}}</ref> |
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== Funding and Ownership== |
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The majority of The Tyee's funding is provided by Working Enterprises, a grouping of companies affiliated with the Canadian Federation of Labor [ref] http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/cash-from-every-corner-three-kooky-ways-vancouvers-tyee-pays-for-top-shelf-regional-journalism/ [/ref]. Working Enterprise owns 66% of the Tyee with the other third being funded/owned by investor Eric Peterson. In addition to the funding provided by these two sources which total $450,000 (as of 2010)an additional $150,00 is generated through advertising, grants and reader donations. |
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In the past The Tyee has also generated revenue by allowing donors to contribute specifically to coverage of particular news topics such as they did during the 2009 election allowing smaller donors to attch "strings" to their donations. David Beers refers to this practice as "crowdsourcing our editorial board". [ref] http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/cash-from-every-corner-three-kooky-ways-vancouvers-tyee-pays-for-top-shelf-regional-journalism/ [/ref] |
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Revision as of 21:44, 27 September 2010
The Tyee is an independent Canadian online web magazine, which focuses on coverage of news and media issues in British Columbia.
The Tyee was launched in November 2003 by David Beers, a journalist who had previously been associated with the Vancouver Sun.[1] Other journalists currently associated with The Tyee include Rafe Mair, Murray Dobbin, Steve Burgess, Ryan Austin, Will McMartin, Linda Solomon and Barbara McLintock.
The site is currently one of Canada's most widely read sources of alternative journalism on the web.[2] In October 2005, it claimed 130,000 unique visitors made 400,000 visits and looked at roughly one million pages.[3]
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.[4][5][6]
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.
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 the Endswell Fund at Tides Canada Foundation, which matched readers' donations up until that point.[7]
Funding and Ownership
The majority of The Tyee's funding is provided by Working Enterprises, a grouping of companies affiliated with the Canadian Federation of Labor [ref] http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/cash-from-every-corner-three-kooky-ways-vancouvers-tyee-pays-for-top-shelf-regional-journalism/ [/ref]. Working Enterprise owns 66% of the Tyee with the other third being funded/owned by investor Eric Peterson. In addition to the funding provided by these two sources which total $450,000 (as of 2010)an additional $150,00 is generated through advertising, grants and reader donations.
In the past The Tyee has also generated revenue by allowing donors to contribute specifically to coverage of particular news topics such as they did during the 2009 election allowing smaller donors to attch "strings" to their donations. David Beers refers to this practice as "crowdsourcing our editorial board". [ref] http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/cash-from-every-corner-three-kooky-ways-vancouvers-tyee-pays-for-top-shelf-regional-journalism/ [/ref]
References
- ^ Scott Deveau, "Talking to the Press: Q&A with David Beers". Langara Journalism Review, 2004. Retrieved on May 30, 2007.
- ^ Mason Wright, "Yippee Tyee: Get connected to B.C. news". This Magazine, December 2005. Retrieved on May 30, 2007.
- ^ Aaron Leaf, "Some straight talk on Vancouver's weekly newspaper war". Ryerson Review of Journalism, November 2005. Retrieved on May 30, 2007.
- ^ Tyee Receives National Honour, www.TheTyee.ca, June 11, 2007
- ^ Aveling, Nick (2009-06-10). "Awards honour 'exemplary' journalists". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- ^ "Media Advisory - Canadian Journalism Foundation Announces Award Winners". CNW Group. 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- ^ David Beers (2006). "Tyee Fellowships Launched". The Tyee. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
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