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The Tyee Comes out Once a Week, Right? Um, Way Wrong

And two other myths shattered about how you can get our headlines fresh. Pass it on!

David Beers 5 Nov 2014TheTyee.ca

David Beers is The Tyee's executive editor.

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What's on The Tyee right this instant? One way to find out is via your mobile device. We've made it easy to access and read, near automatically.

The other day I was on the phone with a dear friend of more than 20 years who is smart, political and creative, and who has been an avid fan of The Tyee from the day we launched 11 years ago.

"You come out once a week, right?" he asked, just to confirm the next time he'd be able to read something new on The Tyee. My inner reaction: Whaaaaa????

The Tyee is a website that can be visited any hour, minute, second of the day. We publish on our site a raft of new content every evening (except Saturday) around 11 p.m., but we also post new stories, either as features or as part of our The Hook section, at various moments throughout the day.

It's not unusual for The Tyee to publish eight or more original pieces of reporting or analysis in the course of a 24-hour cycle. But I guess we got so busy making that happen we forgot to let everyone know what's available and how!

My friend, for example, wasn't aware of all this because he has long received The Tyee as a weekly list of headlines in his email on Mondays. About 20,000 people subscribe to The Tyee's weekly email package, and if you are one, know that we love you for it.

But now I wonder how many of you don't know you can visit The Tyee any time you wish to see what we are publishing, piping hot fresh? Did you know for example you can get our emailed headlines six days a week? Yep....

Here are two myth-shattering truths about how to access The Tyee's coverage:

Why wait? You can get our emailed headlines daily! Yes you can, free. Right here. The advantage compared to getting them weekly is not only timeliness, but appetite-appropriate grazing. The Tyee publishes so many stories nowadays that it can be a bit daunting scrolling through, say, 30 features and more on a Monday. Think of our daily emailout (free, like the weekly one) as bite sized snacks, rather than one big seven-day meal! And no, we don't share your email address with anyone without your express permission.

Yes, we are fully mobile. There are two ways to read The Tyee on your mobile device. If you type The Tyee into a search engine or browse for www.thetyee.ca, you will end up at our home page and see this: "It looks like you are on a mobile device, if you'd like to switch back to the mobile version of this site, click here." If you do "click here," you see all The Tyee's latest content in a much more readable format for small screens.

Tyee mobile plus: With little more than HTML5 and their MacGyver skills, our tech team has also designed a nifty "app" that works great on most smart phones, allowing more functions than our basic mobile site discussed above. Our app is free (and not through iTunes). You can find out all about it, including how to quickly install (no download required), by going here.

So that feels better. Now that this article is published, I'm going to go to my nifty Tyee mobile app on my phone and email this article to my dear friend of 20 years to gently and cheerfully bring him up to date, encouraging him, perhaps, to shift from receiving our headlines weekly to daily. If you, too, have a friend who could benefit from this little myth-busting note on how to stay up-to-date on The Tyee, please send this on!  [Tyee]

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