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Video: Wilf Dinnick talks J-Source Award win

In this interview, Wilf Dinnick, CEO of OpenFile and recipient of the J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year award, talks about what the win means for him, his team and investors in local collaborative news. J-Source’s Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell went out out to OpenFile headquarters in Toronto to talk with Wilf Dinnick about being recognized…

In this interview, Wilf Dinnick, CEO of OpenFile and recipient of the J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year award, talks about what the win means for him, his team and investors in local collaborative news.

J-Source’s Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell went out out to OpenFile headquarters in Toronto to talk with Wilf Dinnick about being recognized as J-Source's Newsperson of the Year. In this interview, Dinnick talks about what the award means for him, his team and investors in local collaborative news.

(Clockwise from left: CEO Wilf Dinnick working at OpenFile's Liberty Village headquarters in Toronto; Dinnick and social media and community editor Sarah Millar; A view of the office where Dinnick works with CFO Andrew Harmon, Millar, and web development team ninth+crux media. Photos by Belinda Alzner)

Stay tuned later this week for some background from Dinnick on what OpenFile did in 2011 that set them apart.

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UPDATE: Feb. 3

Wilf Dinnick talks about OpenFile in 2011, and what lays ahead for the online news website.