Launched in 2009 by former CNN correspondent Wilf Dinnick, OpenFile is a Canadian local news site with an innovative collaborative news system. Stories can be suggested by just about anyone, and journalists are assigned to these stories, giving the news a more participatory model. While OpenFile is not an example of non-profit investigative journalism, their innovative model is useful to our analysis of the Canadian landscape.
Page Views: More than 50,000 unique visitors, monthly
Funding: OpenFile’s board of directors is shepherded by big names, including Kevin Newman (former anchor and executive director of Global National) and David Galloway (former president and CEO of TorStar.) Sponsors include TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, MaRS, Canadian Digital Media Network, the University of Waterloo and Toronto Community Foundation.
Featured Story:
The Poppy File by various journalists
This special Remembrance Day series delved into the stories of Canada’s veterans, fallen soldiers and the people whose lives they touched. The crowning achievement was the acclaimed Poppy Map, which used an interactive map to highlight the address of Toronto’s WWII soldier casualties.
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