The feisty fish has been The Tyee’s mascot since we launched in 2003. Tyee is a Nuu-chah-nulth word that means... view full bio
Jeanette Ageson is publisher of The Tyee. She joined the organization in 2014 and manages all revenue-generating and operations activities... view full bio
David Beers is the founding editor of The Tyee and serves as current editor-in-chief. He started the publication in 2003 as an experiment in new ways... view full bio
andrea bennett is a senior editor at The Tyee. They are a non-binary National Magazine Award-winning writer who has worked as an editor in book and... view full bio
Paul Willcocks is a senior editor at The Tyee. He’s been a newspaper publisher in four provinces, including at the Advocate in Red Deer, two daily newspapers in... view full bio
Jackie Wong (she/her) is a senior editor with The Tyee. She has been involved with the publication since 2005, when she first set foot in its office as a student... view full bio
Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee. After joining as editorial assistant in 2019, he became founding editor of The Tyee’s federal election... view full bio
Jacob Boon is The Tyee’s newsletter editor. He is in charge of the regular daily and weekly newsletters, and works with the editorial team on feature... view full bio
Sarah Krichel is The Tyee’s social media manager. She also works on audience development and newsroom diversity. Krichel is an award-winning... view full bio
Dorothy Woodend is the culture editor for The Tyee. She has worked in many different cultural disciplines, including producing contemporary dance... view full bio
Meg Yamamoto is web and copy editor at The Tyee. She has worked in newspaper, magazine and book publishing and was previously an editor at the Tico Times in Costa Rica... view full bio
Andrew MacLeod is the British Columbia legislative bureau chief for The Tyee. Since joining full time in 2007, his work has been referred to in the B.C. legislature... view full bio
Christopher Cheung is a staff reporter at The Tyee. He is interested in the power and politics behind urban change, and how Vancouver’s many diasporas... view full bio
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. Born and raised in Ontario, she began her journalism career 20 years ago at community newspapers... view full bio
Jen St. Denis is a reporter with The Tyee. She covers housing and civic issues, with a particular focus on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood... view full bio
Katie Hyslop writes about education and youth issues for The Tyee. They are interested in the social justice aspects of education, and how youth adapt and... view full bio
Zak Vescera is The Tyee’s labour reporter. He covers unions, labour disputes and the lives of working people in Metro Vancouver, and anywhere else in the region... view full bio
Michelle Gamage is The Tyee’s health reporter. She previously wrote about environmental issues for The Tyee, speaking with people who... view full bio
Geoff Dembicki reports for The Tyee. His work also appears in Vice, Foreign Policy and the New York Times. He’s the author of Are We Screwed?... view full bio
Francesca Fionda is an investigative reporter and regular contributor at The Tyee. She’s worked with national teams and locally-driven outlets, and loves... view full bio
Steve Burgess is a contributing editor of The Tyee. He writes the Please Advise! column and is the author of the 2011 book Who Killed Mom? from Greystone Books... view full bio
Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee. He has published 22 books, both fiction and non-fiction, and has written hundreds of articles. He taught... view full bio
Andrew Nikiforuk has been writing about the oil and gas industry for nearly 20 years and cares deeply about accuracy, government accountability and... view full bio
Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist and documentary maker. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the... view full bio
Bryan Carney is The Tyee's director of web production. He was also the recipient of the 2021 Webster award for excellence in technology reporting... view full bio
Em Cooper is outreach manager for The Tyee. They are the first point of contact for our Tyee Builders — the folks who graciously contribute to... view full bio
Shubhalaxmi Patil is audience development analyst at The Tyee. She is the project manager of the affiliated development team, where she tracks... view full bio
Kimberly Sayson is office and systems co-ordinator at The Tyee. view full bio
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Deblekha Guin is the founding executive director of the Access to Media Education Society, a grassroots non-profit that supports marginalized youth... view full bio
Michelle Hoar directs the Hey Neighbour Collective project at the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, a multi-stakeholder collaborative project aimed at... view full bio
Peter W. Klein is the founder of the Global Reporting Centre, a UBC-based non-profit focused on producing and innovating journalism on under-reported issues... view full bio
Melody Ma 馬勻雅 (Cantonese: ma5 wan4 nga5, Mandarin: mǎ yún yǎ) is a tech startup founder, civic advocate, and writer. She is the co-founder... view full bio