Stroome.com, an online video-editing platform conceived and developed at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, has won a Knight News Challenge award - a two-year grant of $200,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The awards announced on June 16 are part of a five-year, $25 million international contest to fund digital news experiments that use technology to inform specific geographic communities. In this round, the fourth year of the five-year program, 12 projects were awarded $2.74 million.