David Beers
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David Beers is a Canadian journalist. He was born in 1957 and grew up in San Jose, California, where his father worked for Lockheed as a satellite test engineer. He is a sociologist and education professor at the University of British Columbia.Over the past two decades, Beers’ work has been published in magazines including the Los Angeles Times Magazine and Harper's. In 1994, "We’re No Angels" was a finalist for the Canadian National Magazine Award.In 2002, after being fired from the Vancouver Sun over a controversial editorial about freedom of speech in a post-9/11 milieu, Beers started an online publication in Vancouver, British Columbia called The Tyee.
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Adult education: How The Tyee wants to maximize its readers through master classes
There’s a certain “why not us” feel to The Tyee’s plan to start offering classes to its readers. The Vancouver news site is known for being somewhat experimental in its approach to funding and producing its work, so hosting what they’re calling “master classes” in their newsroom just sort of fits.
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Cash from every corner: Three kooky ways Vancouver's Tyee pays for top-shelf regional journalism
If “diversified revenue” is journalism’s newest clich, I dare you to dig up a better anecdote than The Tyee, an oddly named gem in Vancouver, B. C.
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Cash from every corner: Three kooky ways Vancouver's Tyee pays for top-shelf regional journalism
If “diversified revenue” is journalism’s newest clich, I dare you to dig up a better anecdote than The Tyee, an oddly named gem in Vancouver, B. C.
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