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Toronto gets a new kind of super-local neighbourhood news

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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original source Huffington Post
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