{{short description|Canadian news websites}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Vancouver Observer | logo = Vologo.png | logo_size = 225px | logo_alt = Logo of The Vancouver Observer | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | motto = | type = Daily news website and blog | format = Online newspaper | owner = Observer Media Group | founder = | publisher = | president = | editor = | chief_editor = Linda Solomon Wood | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = {{Start date|2006}} | political_position = | language = English | ceased_publication = | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = Vancouver, British Columbia | publishing_country = Canada | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | website = {{URL|https://www.vancouverobserver.com/}} }}
'''''The Vancouver Observer''''' is an independent online newspaper. The site was founded in 2006 by journalist Linda Solomon as an online platform for Vancouver bloggers, writers, reporters, photographers and filmmakers.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rossi|first=Cheryl|title=Journalist pens love story to adopted city|url=http://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/Journalist+pens+love+letter+adopted+city/2719022/story.html|accessdate=November 17, 2011|newspaper=Vancouver Courier|date=March 23, 2010}}</ref> Novelist Ruth Ozeki was involved in the early stages of the site as an adviser. ''The Vancouver Observer'' covers local politics, arts, the environment, technology, health, nutrition, and other topics. It also provides online events listings and a forum for individuals to upload their own stories. The Observer also has a YouTube channel, which features interviews and mini-documentaries.
==Awards and recognition== ''The Vancouver Observer'' won the Canadian Journalism Foundation Excellence in Journalism Award in June 2014 for local/regional reporting. Finalists in the category included Global Calgary and CBC Edmonton. ''Vancouver Observer'' reporter Matthew Millar broke the story about Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee chair Chuck Strahl working as a registered lobbyist for Enbridge, resulting in his resignation. ''The Vancouver Observer'' also broke a story about Canada's National Energy Board, a federal energy regulator, coordinating with police for monitoring of environmental advocates involved in the joint review panel hearings on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. At the award ceremony, Vancouver Observer publisher Linda Solomon announced the upcoming launch of a national news site, the National Observer, with a focus on energy and federal politics.
''The Vancouver Observer'' won first place in Masthead's 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Awards green division for best online-only articles for its "Lost Canadians" series, by Darren Fleet and Megan Stewart, who were both completing their master's degrees at University of British Columbia Journalism School at the time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Canadian Online Publishing Awards 2010|url=http://www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com/2010/winners.shtml|work=Canadian Online Publishing Awards 2010|publisher=Masthead Magazine|accessdate=November 17, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101002092833/http://www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com/2010/winners.shtml|archivedate=October 2, 2010}}</ref> ''The Vancouver Observer'' was also a finalist in three categories in the 2011 Awards: Best Overall Website, Best Online-Only Articles, and Best Newsletter.<ref>{{cite web|title=Canadian Online Publishing Awards 2011|url=http://www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com/2011/winners.shtml|work=Canadian Online Publishing Awards|publisher=Masthead|accessdate=November 17, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120722015824/http://www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com/2011/winners.shtml|archivedate=July 22, 2012}}</ref>
==''Canada's National Observer''== ''Canada's National Observer'', launched in 2015, is the national offshoot of ''The Vancouver Observer''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Energy and politics news site National Observer to launch this week|last1=Braganza|first1=Chantal|url=http://j-source.ca/article/energy-and-politics-news-site-national-observer-launch-week|website=The Canadian Journalism Project|accessdate=October 14, 2015}}</ref> The site was founded through a Kickstarter campaign.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reports from the Energy Battlegrounds|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/870712911/national-observer-reports-from-the-energy-battlegr|website=Kickstarter|accessdate=October 14, 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *Alexandra Samuel: [http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/02/welcome_to_vancouver_the_world.html Welcome to Vancouver, the World's Largest Social Media Experiment], Harvard Business Review, February 12, 2010 *[https://www.vancouverobserver.com/ Vancouver Observer] (official site) *[https://www.nationalobserver.com National Observer] (official site)
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