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I founded The Tyee back in 2003 because I saw a real need for a fresh new site that focused on publishing in-depth original reporting about our region. 'No junk, just good journalism' has always been our motto.

Nineteen years after starting The Tyee, I couldn't have dreamed where we are today. In the past few years, we've grown our team to a staff of 20. We've taken home plenty of awards. Our journalism is read far and wide, and we offer it all completely for free.

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Help make more journalism happen.

Thanks for stopping by The Tyee today. Anytime you're in the mood to read important stories, written well, we'll be here. We have a whole team of journalists whose full-time gig is digging up vital and intriguing stories to add to the public conversation.

I founded The Tyee back in 2003 because I saw a real need for a fresh new site that focused on publishing in-depth original reporting about our region. 'No junk, just good journalism' has always been our motto.

Nineteen years after starting The Tyee, I couldn't have dreamed where we are today. In the past few years, we've grown our team to a staff of 20. We've taken home plenty of awards. Our journalism is read far and wide, and we offer it all completely for free.

The only reason we've lasted so long, have grown while other newsrooms have shrunk, and have resisted putting up a paywall is because we have the support of thousands of generous readers who we call Tyee Builders. These wonderful folks pitch in an amount that works for them on a one-time or monthly basis so that we can pay our talented writers and even grow to do more.

We want to be around for the long haul and to meet the demand for quality, fact-based reporting in our public conversation. If you'd like to help us do that, please consider joining Tyee Builders.

You pick the amount, and you can cancel any time.

— David Beers, Founding editor

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andrea bennett

andrea bennett is managing editor of The Tyee.

They are a non-binary National Magazine Award-winning writer who has worked as an editor in book and magazine publishing for over ten years, including for both Maisonneuve magazine and Talonbooks.

Their most recent book, Like a Boy but Not a Boy, a collection of essays about gender, mental illness and pregnancy, was a CBC Books' pick for top Canadian non-fiction of 2020 and one of Autostraddle’s best queer books of that year, as well as a 2022 selection for the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow shortlist.

bennett is based in tiskwat, B.C., where they enjoy baking, gardening and cold ocean swims. Find them on Twitter @akkabah.

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