Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. Like most first-time entrepreneurs, I was under the impression that the decisions made after we went live were the most important. It turns...

Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner.

From its inception, the site received a tremendous amount of attention. The New School, USC Annenberg, the Online News Association and, ultimately,...

Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. But the site you see today is very different than what was initially developed at USC Annenberg's pioneering Program for Online...

Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. There are a lot of uncertainties in the startup game. But one thing is for sure: When it comes to presenting your product...

Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. Considering the fact that "video" is one of the most searchable words on the web, our first startup challenge -- actually coming up...

Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. Originally started as a master's thesis project at USC's pioneering Annenberg Program on Online Communities, we didn't have all the resources...

Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform. One of our first -- and biggest -- hurdles was finding someone who could actually build the product my partner and I wanted to bring to market. But the real challenge,...

I worked for 10 years in the film and television business as a development executive. I've spent the last two and a half years as co-founder of Stroome, an online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. You might think that these...

At the recent MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, I had the pleasure of speaking to 16 of the most promising thinkers in the area of digital news. Culled together from myriad of disciplines and backgrounds, some had already established themselves as pioneers in the digital space.Others had come from...

When you think of the recent unrest in the Middle East, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube immediately come to mind.

Yet in an era where the revolution no longer need be televised -- now it's tweeted -- wouldn't a collaborative online video editing platform that...

Maybe it's the low barrier to entry. Maybe it's a downtrodden economy that's forced a displaced workforce to become more entrepreneurial. Or maybe, to update the old adage, there really is "gold in them thar clouds." Whatever it is, more and more people lately seem to be looking to the...

For many, receiving a grant from the prestigious Knight Foundation is a capstone achievement for a long and distinguished career in journalism.

As someone who has spent the last 15 years dreaming up stories rather than reporting them, I look at it as just the beginning.

Stroome, the collaborative...