From The Tyee submission:

The Tyee was proud to be named 2007 runner-up for Excellence in the category of Small/Medium or Local Media. We believe we have made much progress since then and respectfully ask to be considered for the Excellence Award this year. While our traffic has grown 25 per cent since last year, to 200,000 unique visitors in our best months, we remain within the Small/Medium category.

At a moment when traditional business and organizational models for news media in Canada are severely stressed, The Tyee offers an alternative: independent, online-only, and dedicated to producing well-sourced investigative and solutions-oriented journalism that is increasingly scarce...

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