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On Monday, a New Tyee

We're changing our design and adding features readers wanted.

David Beers 8 Jul 2009TheTyee.ca

David Beers is founding editor of The Tyee.
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We've been hard at work revamping.

Heads up everyone. When you visit The Tyee's web site on Monday you'll find a lot of changes. They will include a new graphic design, new interactive features, a showcase of readers' photos, and more news content.

Rest assured, when it comes to The Tyee's mission -- providing independent, solid investigative and solutions reporting about B.C and beyond -- we're more committed than ever. And we'll be running more, not fewer, original articles.

Over the past year or so, however, we've taken note of what many readers have told us they'd like more of from The Tyee. Some of your views were gathered through our readers' survey we conducted last fall. Readers have shared further suggestions in face-to-face meetings with us at events, through emails sent to our office, and in comments posted after Tyee stories.

We've tried to deliver as many of those changes as possible (given limited resources) in the revamped Tyee you'll see on Monday. Among the changes you'll find:

Better navigation, including a way to find stories by general topic headings such as environment, education, food, and gender and sexuality.

A chance to rate stories. Assign Tyee articles the grade you think they deserve, and gain the benefit of other readers' collective opinions.

A new Tyee flickr photo pool of readers' photos, with a home page window showcasing images reflecting, any way you wish, the theme of 'Your BC'.

A continuous news feed from Canadian Press, updated every 30 minutes. Further reason, we hope, to make The Tyee your first source for comprehensive B.C. information.

There's more, but that's probably enough to preview for now, so as to preserve a sense of discovery when you arrive Monday.

As soon as the new site is up, we'll be running more stories explaining how you can get the most out of it, and how our creative team thought through the changes.

We look forward to unveiling this latest version of The Tyee, and we will welcome your reactions and further suggestions.

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