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Ashley Renders is a video producer for the National Post and a freelance journalist based in Toronto.

April 4, 2018

What a failed media startup can teach us about involving readers in reporting

The Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience: “We learned that we shouldn’t dismiss [a story] just because it’s not articulated in a way that we would as journalists.”

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Renders, Ashley. "What a failed media startup can teach us about involving readers in reporting." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Apr. 2018. Web. 25 Nov. 2024.

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