Jennifer Thuncher
Jennifer Thuncher is an editor and journalist at The Squamish Chief, with a focus on community news that links local people, events and everyday life. Her role includes covering automobile and transport-themed community features, such as classic car and train shows at local museums, alongside a wide range of civic, cultural and lifestyle stories.
Community events and local culture
Thuncher’s reporting frequently centres on community gatherings and public events, using them as an entry point into the lives and interests of residents. In her coverage of a classic car and train show at a railway museum, she treats vintage vehicles and rail stock as part of shared heritage, framed through family-friendly programming and the volunteer effort behind such events. She applies a similar lens to library programming and author talks, highlighting events that bring people together around issues like dementia care and support for caregivers when an advocate and writer visits regional libraries. Her work on business-focused events explores how major shifts, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, change daily operations for local entrepreneurs, often through interviews with consultants and authors who advise on adapting to new realities. Across these pieces, she uses straightforward feature reporting, clear quotes and practical detail to show how broader themes—health, business change, transportation and leisure—play out in everyday community settings.
Books, authors and issue-driven storytelling
A distinctive strand of Thuncher’s work is her regular attention to books and authors, especially when they illuminate local or regional issues. She profiles a writer and dementia care advocate whose work focuses on the experiences of caregivers and the realities of supporting people with dementia, tying the book and its events to resources available through area libraries. In another feature, she covers the release of a thriller titled “Last One Alive,” set in a fictional version of the local community, emphasising both its tense, claustrophobic atmosphere and its resonance for readers who recognise familiar landscapes. She also reports on a children’s book about Southern Resident orcas that aims to teach young readers about marine conservation, positioning the title as a natural fit for families interested in local marine life and environmental stewardship. Even in business coverage, she foregrounds authors who write about how the pandemic has changed work and commerce, allowing her to connect personal narratives and expert commentary with practical lessons for local businesses. This pattern of author-centred reporting shows her preference for storytelling that connects issues—dementia, conservation, economic change—to tangible resources and narratives that residents can engage with.
Opinion writing and explaining journalism
Alongside her reporting, Thuncher writes opinion and explainer pieces that foreground both lived experience and transparency about how local journalism works. In an opinion column reflecting on the year and looking ahead, she writes about sorrow, celebration and the “smallest joys” that proved most powerful, using personal and community examples to argue for noticing everyday moments of happiness. The tone is reflective but anchored in specific observations, reinforcing her broader tendency to connect large themes to concrete, local detail. In another piece, she addresses questions about how The Squamish Chief is funded, outlining the outlet’s revenue sources and inviting further questions from readers via the newsroom, which underscores her commitment to openness about media operations. Beyond the pages of the paper, she speaks publicly about challenges facing news media, appearing with the publisher at civic forums to discuss pressures on journalism and answer questions about the local press. Her leadership in community news has been recognised with a regional journalism award that cites her dedication to the community and to mentoring other journalists. Together, these opinion and explainer pieces show a journalist who treats trust in media as part of her beat, taking time to describe both her own experience and the business and civic context in which local reporting happens.
Editorial leadership and broad community remit
Thuncher has worked as editor and journalist at The Squamish Chief since 2014, a dual role that combines newsroom leadership with regular reporting. Public professional profiles describe her as passionate about community news and note that she covers a wide range of issues and topics, from business and culture to civic questions about funding and media. Her social media presence reinforces that identity, presenting her as an editor and journalist documenting “a story in the life of a small town reporter,” and sharing snapshots from assignments in the community. This breadth of coverage, paired with her willingness to write in multiple formats—straight news, features, profiles and opinion—means her work can carry stories about classic cars, trains, books, conservation, business change and media transparency under a consistent, community-first frame. For anyone engaging with her as a journalist, the through-line is a focus on how broader topics, including automobile and transport themes, intersect with the lives, interests and concerns of the people she covers.
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