The Huffington Post interviews Wilf Dinnick, founding editor and CEO of
the new Toronto-based news website,
Open File. Open File distinguishes itself from other media sites in that every story published is initially
pitched by a reader. An excerpt from the interview:
"What's the big idea behind Open File?"
"I've had a great career as a journalist for ABC News, CNN and the
three major Canadian networks. Like many journalists, I saw that big,
traditional media companies didn't know how to harness the power of the
web. My wife (Sonia Verma, founding editor) and I wanted to create an
online news model that hadn't been done. We wanted it to be run by
journalists, based on the most important journalistic principles, such
as transparency and accountability. We wanted it to be collaborative --
that is, stories are suggested by readers and readers contribute to
them. And we wanted it to be about local news."
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