About Kathy Vey

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Kathy Vey is editor in chief of OpenFile.ca, Canada's first collaborative local news website. OpenFile began in Toronto in May 2010 and has since launched sites in Vancouver and Ottawa. Previously, Kathy was team editor in charge of training and development at the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper. One of her first newsroom jobs was in the late 1970s, transcribing harness-racing results from fuzzy and primitive fax transmissions into a video display terminal. (Calling it a computer would be too kind.) After joining the Star in 1988, she worked in both management and guild roles, including deputy city editor, news editor, assistant national editor and restaurant critic. She has extensive experience as a trainer and spent 2008 shepherding scores of print journalists through a week-long, in-house multimedia boot camp.

Stories

Digital media stories published elsewhere by Kathy Vey:

  • Another way of remembering [edit]
    A blog post describing the creation of The Poppy File, a multimedia project launched by OpenFile for Remembrance Day 2010. During World War II, more than 3,200 people from Toronto died in service. We mapped the addresses of their next of kin and displayed them with the name, rank and place of death of the fallen servicemen.

Writing

Content on this site written by Kathy Vey (includes contributory writing):

  • Projects

    • Berkeley Youth Alternatives Production Garden
    • Berkeley Youth Alternatives has served youth and families by providing comprehensive services in a supportive and bias-free haven. During a period of soaring dropout rates, juvenile crime, drug abuse, and ...