{{Short description|Irish writer, producer and journalist}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=December 2022}} {{notability|date=December 2022}} }} '''Bill Tyson''' is an Irish writer, producer and documentary maker.<ref name="rte">{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/contributor/1149325-documentary-maker-bill-tyson/?page=1|publisher=RTÉ Radio|title=Bill Tyson|date=24 June 2020|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> As of 2020, he was working with Dublin Community Television and the ''Irish Mail on Sunday''.<ref name="rte"/> He previously worked for the ''Sunday Tribune'' and the ''Irish Independent''.<ref name="tribunequit"/><ref name="indoprize"/>
== Journalism == In 2000 and 2002, while working for the ''Irish Independent'', Tyson won two ESB National Media Awards in the "Business & Finance" category.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/winners-of-media-awards-1.1113345|work=The Irish Times|title=Winners of media awards|date=2 November 2000|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="indoprize">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/independent-business-writer-wins-media-prize-26032135.html|website=Irish Independent|title=Independent business writer wins media prize|first=Nicola|last=Anderson|date=24 October 2002|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> The 2002 award was for his "hard-hitting pieces relating to personal finances" and "his exposure of over-pricing by financial institutions".<ref name="indoprize"/> He won a further ESB National Media Award in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/winners-of-national-journalism-awards-announced-1.1164668|work=The Irish Times|title=Winners of national journalism awards announced|first=Carol|last=Coulter|date=3 November 2004|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref>
In 2007, while working as a business correspondent for the Sunday Tribune, Tyson was shortlisted in the "Specialist Business Reporting" category of the inaugural UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120525135212/http://www.smurfitschool.ie/aboutsmurfit/news/newsarchive/title,6809,en.html Smurfitschool.ie – News Archive – Journalists honoured in Inaugural UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards – 7 November 2007] (archived 2012)</ref> In 2008, Tyson resigned from the Tribune "in solidarity with" the then business editor of the Sunday Tribune, who was reputedly sacked following a complaint from an advertiser about an unsigned article.<ref name="tribunequit">{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/tribune-business-editor-loses-post-after-article-1.979991|title='Tribune' business editor loses post after article|work=The Irish Times|date=8 November 2007|access-date=21 December 2022|first=Paul|last=Cullen}}</ref>
As of 2013, Tyson was a contributor to the RTÉ TV series "The Consumer Show".<ref name="presspack">[https://presspack.rte.ie/2013/05/07/the-consumer-show-19/ RTE.ie – Press Pack – The Consumer Show – 7 May 2013]</ref> Since 2013, he has also been a columnist with the ''Irish Daily Mail'' and ''Irish Mail on Sunday'' titles.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
==Producer== Tyson produced a short film, "''Whatever Turns You On''", which won several awards,<ref name="rte"/> including Best Short Short at the 2009 Aspen Shortsfest.<ref name="iftn">{{cite web|url=http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&aid=73&rid=4282025&tpl=archnews&only=1|website=iftn.ie|title=Aspen Short Win for Declan Cassidy|date=9 April 2009|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> It was also short-listed for the Best Short Film award at the Boston Irish Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} Also in 2009, the short film ''Veronique'' was released. It was written and produced by Tyson under the Irish Film Board's Virtual Cinema scheme.<ref name="iftn"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn8Q8FyUTWM|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/gn8Q8FyUTWM|archive-date=2021-12-15|url-status=live|title=VERONIQUE|date=8 October 2009|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
By late 2020, Tyson had a production role on "Romancing Ireland", a six part series on sustainable food production for DCTV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://romancingireland.com/mobile/index.html|title=RomancingIreland}}</ref> Tyson, who has an MA in screenwriting,<ref name="rte"/> also co-wrote and produced a four-hour television series for DCTV, ''The House''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=825|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004174107/http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=825|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 October 2011|title=DCTV » The House: An Innovative New Drama|date=4 October 2011}}</ref> He also produced another documentary for DCTV, titled ''A Century of Sailing'', about the oldest sailing boats in the world still racing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=2141|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227015954/http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=2141|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 February 2012|title=DCTV » Howth 17s: A Century of Sailing|date=27 February 2012}}</ref>
In 2020, Tyson produced "Nicolas Cruz Hernandez: Still Fighting", an RTÉ Radio 1 documentary about a Cuban who coached Ireland to Olympic boxing success.<ref>[https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2020/0624/1149317-nicolas-cruz-hernandez-still-fighting/ RTE.ie – Nicolás Cruz Hernandez – Still Fighting]</ref>
== Books == Tyson wrote and published a finance book, "Your Money", which was a top ten non-fiction best-seller several times between 1996 and 2004.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
A biography of Mayoman Admiral William Brown, written by the Argentine author Marcos Aguinis and translated by Bill Tyson, was published in 2006.<ref>{{cite book|title=Admiral William Brown: Liberator of the South Atlantic|first=Marcos|last=Aguinis|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Admiral Brown Society|isbn=0951962493}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mayobooks.ie/Admiral%20-%20Brown%20-%20Foxford%20-%20Argentina%20-%20Navy|website=mayobooks.ie|title=Admiral William Brown – Liberator of The South Atlantic|access-date=21 December 2022|quote=Admiral William Brown – Liberator of The South Atlantic [..] Marcos Aguinis Translated by Bill Tyson}}</ref>
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