Tom Grasty
Los Angeles, California 
Homepage: http://www.stroome.com
Recently named an "Innovator to Watch" by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, Tom Grasty is an entrepreneurial digital and media strategist with a diverse professional background across the entertainment, advertising, public relations and Internet industries and has overseen the development of over 100 hours of film, television, documentary and digital properties. Tom holds a BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a MA in Communications Management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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April 27, 2010
We all know the problems inherent in creating digital news packages: reporting from disparate geographic locations not only bloats budgets but hampers the ability to make timely decisions; slow uploads and incompatible file conversions often lead to breakdown in communication and impede the flow of critical information; the absence of a centrally shared space further aggravates an already frustrating approval process.
Yet even in the face of the recent rapid democratization of media, coupled with the lowering price threshold on prosumer technology, a truly collaborative platform for news aggregation, collaboration and distribution has alluded us.
That just may have changed last Wednesday when USC Annenberg announced they would be the first major journalism program in the country to adopt Stroome, a robust collaborative online editing community developed by myself and award-winning journalist and documentarian, Nonny de la Peña.
Undoubtedly, my connection to Stroome as co-founder renders me biased. But there is no doubt that Stroome addresses a real pain in the marketplace.
Mark Cooper, director, Annenberg Digital News, put it this way: "Stroome fills a current, yawning gap and constitute[s] a powerful collaborative tool for university journalism learning labs and publications, for student media, for citizen journalism, for pro-am projects and, naturally, for legacy media moving into more networked new media." More...
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