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Tool of the week:

Stroome

What is it?

A free online video editing tool which allows you to collaborate with others

How is it of use to journalists?

When it won $200,000 of funding in last year's Knight News Challenge , Stroome's ambitions as a useful tool for broadcasters were outlined:

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Stroome is handy if you find yourself working on a computer without editing software (there is also YouTube's online video editor ) although most people will no doubt favour editing within an application rather than within a browser due to the speed of upload and processing. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-39593" height="373" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&amp;assetID=43870&amp;nosurround=true&amp;fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Stroome" width="540"> Stroome offers interesting possibilities to work collaboratively with others, not just journalists. One idea is that local news sites could encourage readers to upload footage of a severe weather event and collaboratively build a video using Stroome.

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Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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