Achievements

A list of Matt Shearer’s achievements. Not an exhaustive list – just the highlights, and mainly from a career perspective.

Nairobi #newsHACK: BBC Connected Studio World Service Africa

February 4, 2015Achievements, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Collaboration Work, Stage Appearences#newsHACK, Andy Poulton, BBG, Cynara Vetch, Dmitry Shishkin, iHub, Innovation, Josiah Mugambi, Kenya, Laura Harrison, Mark Flashman, Mary Lusiba, Miriam Quansah, Nairobi, Nairobi Garage, Peter Horrocks, Richard Caller, Sheng, University of NairobiMatt Shearer

This event, in Nairobi Garage, was a hack event held by BBC News Labs and Connected Studio to prototype & launch new pilot News services that will reach young African females.

#newsHACK III – Language Technologies Hack – Tower Bridge

December 17, 2014Achievements, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News Organisations, Rapid Prototyping, Stage Appearences#newsHACK, Catherine Boggan, Chris Ambrose, Deutsche Welle, Dmitry Shishkin, Hackathon, Innovation, James Montgomery, Journalism, Journalism as Data, Language Technologies, Laura Harrison, London, Mark Flashman, Rainmaking Loft, Robin Cramp, Susanne Weber, Tower BridgeMatt Shearer

#newsHACK III – Language Technology was a 2 day hack event in London focussed on “Multilingual Automated News Services of the Future”.

New Job: Head of BBC News Labs

August 5, 2014Achievements, At BBC, BBC News, BBC News Labs, Job / Role / PositionLabMatt Shearer

I am exceptionally pleased that today it was formally announced (at the BBC News monthly comms session) my position of Head of BBC News Labs.

#newsHACK II – Dublin & Glasgow, May 2014

June 24, 2014Achievements, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Collaboration Work, News Organisations, Rapid Prototyping#newsHACK, Bertrand Pecquerie, Dublin, Evangeline de Bourgoing, Financial Times, Glasgow, Global Editors Network, Hackathon, Innovation, Ireland, James Murphy, Laure Nouraout, Miles Bernie, Peter Rippon, Scotland, SKY NEWS, The TimesMatt Shearer

In a frantic year of News Labs’ activity & growth, I have neglected to cover off the great #newsHACK 2 event we held on May 1st & 2nd this year – about 8 weeks ago!

#newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio

October 20, 2013Achievements, At BBC, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, News Organisations, Rapid Prototyping, Video Appearences#newsHACK, Anthony Sullivan, BBC News Labs Partners, Christina Scott, Financial Times, Hackathon, Harry Robbins, Innovation, Jeremy Tarling, Laura Harrison, London, News Labs APIs, News Storyline Ontology, Nic Newman, Paul Wilton, Peter Rippon, Robin Cramp, shoreditch, SKY NEWS, Steve Alderton, The Guardian, The Juicer, The Times, Viktor TronMatt Shearer

On October 17th & 18th 2013, BBC News Labs in partnership with BBC Connected Studio, put on a 48 hour News Industry Hackathon called #newsHACK with 10 News Organisations and 6 Universities. BBC News Labs brought The Juicer, with our News Labs APIs, and a Storyline authoring tool called Storyliner by Outlandish.com for teams to … Continue reading #newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio →

New Partnership: BBC News Labs & BBC Connected Studio

July 4, 2013Achievements, At BBC, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Collaboration WorkBBC News Labs Partners, BBC R&D, Central LabMatt Shearer

I am very pleased that we have now made BBC News Labs part of the BBC Connected Studio.

News Storyline Ontology is published – Open Data Standards

May 1, 2013Achievements, At BBC, BBC News Labs, BBC Online, Collaboration Work, News OrganisationsLinked Data, News Storyline Ontology, Open DataMatt Shearer

Very pleased that Jeremy Tarling and partners published the News Storyline Ontology today. This is looking favourable as the cornerstone of BBC News’ future curation data structure. This has been some great work, coming out of News Labs’ “PR & Outreach” workstream.

Outcomes : BBC News Labs “Summer Labs”, 2012

October 24, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC News, BBC News Labs, BBC Online, Collaboration Work, Demo Appearences, Rapid PrototypingBBC News, Demo Fair Format, New Broadcasting HouseMatt Shearer

Today we ran a demo event to show the prototypes and outcomes from the 2012 Summer Labs. The event was an informal “Trade Fair” format, with 5 demo teams each working at a table to demonstrate and explain the prototypes.

BBC News Labs “Summer Labs” 2012 : Location

July 27, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC News Labs, Rapid PrototypingGeolocation, Innovation, Location, Summer LabsMatt Shearer

Today, slightly eclipsed by the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, we completed the first of our BBC News Labs “Summer Labs”. This Lab was on the exploration of a “Geolocation” problem space. We saw 4 great demos coming out of the 2 week Hack event.

Launching “The News Juicer” – for BBC News Labs

July 3, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC News Labs, BBC Online, Rapid PrototypingInnovation, Jody-Lan Castle, Linked Data, Matt Haynes, Monica Sarkar, News Labs APIs, Preethi, Summer Labs, The JuicerMatt Shearer

We are very pleased to introduce “THE NEWS JUICER”. This is the Semantic Prototyping Platform for BBC News Labs, which will provide real semantic data sources and APIs for the BBC News Labs “Summer Labs” between now and end of September 2012.

BBC News Labs is born

April 20, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC News LabsInnovation, Jonathan Austin, Lewis Buttress, Linked Data, News Labs APIs, Paul Wilton, semantic web, Silver Oliver, Summer LabsMatt Shearer

Today we started BBC News Labs – a small group of us from BBC News working to innovate and open new opportunities for BBC News.

Launching the BBC Agile Project Management Training Programme

April 5, 2012Achievements, At BBC, Project ManagementAgile Portfolio, Agile Project Management, Programme Management, Programme Manager, TrainingMatt Shearer

I am very pleased to be launching the new Agile Project Management Training Programme for the BBC. I’ve been working for the past few months with the BBC Academy, and the other lead project managers from The BBC to put together this training programme for our 100+ Agile Project Managers at the BBC. It is … Continue reading Launching the BBC Agile Project Management Training Programme →

Launching BBC News Responsive Design MVP

March 30, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC NewsBBC Responsive News, Responsive Design, Responsive NewsMatt Shearer

Very pleased, along with the BBC News responsive design team, to have launched the responsive MVP for feature phones. We started this back in Spring 2011, when Anthony Sullivan and I made space, and we assembled the team with Matt Chadburn. This will continue to roll out across BBC News, replacing the legacy desktop and … Continue reading Launching BBC News Responsive Design MVP →

Delivering Step Change Innovation: A new team for Responsive BBC News

April 15, 2011Achievements, At BBC, BBC News, Job / Role / Position, Product Management, Project ManagementAnthony Sullivan, BBC Responsive News, Innovation, Matt Chadburn, Responsive DesignMatt Shearer

Exciting times in the new job with BBC News. Working with Anthony Sullivan ‘s team, I starting a new unit to deliver a step change innovation for BBC News. Responsive Design!!

Climate Change Experiment – Innovation with Oxford University AOPP

May 2, 2006Achievements, At BBC, BBC Online, Collaboration Work, Project ManagementBBC Science and Nature, Climate Change, Distributed Computing, Innovation, Oxford University, PhysicsMatt Shearer

In 2006 & 2007, my team at BBC Science & Nature collaborated with Oxford University Department of Atmospheric, Oceanographic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) on the largest climate change experiment ever.