#newsVANE project – combining ambient data sources & signals
We’ve just kicked off a new project called #newsVANE.
BBC News Labs
Press launch for International Startup Conference
On the 10th, I took part in a press launch for the “International Startup Conference” run by Room in the Moon’s Rafael dos Santos, at Google Campus. I’ll be talking about rapid prototyping at the event in mid March at Ravensbourne College in London. Press Launch for Startup Conference
Blog post for the College of Journalism
I authored a post for The BBC College of Journalism, published today, BBC News Labs: The story’s all about making connections. This was following recent work in Labs, and James Harding (head of BBC News) mentioning us in a talk in November.
Fusion Talk – News Labs with Mirror & Shed Media, MC’d by Jem Stone
Did a quick talk for BBC Academy Fusion today about News Labs & Connected Studio – chaired by Jem Stone. It was all about “Innovation in large organisations”. Malcolm Coles (Product Director at Trinity Mirror) and Martin Trickey (Group Head of Digital at Shed Media Group) also talked. Video to go up shortly.
News Archive Creative Studio in Shoreditch
Yesterday saw a great creative event in Shoreditch, put on by the Connected Studio team. I did some MC’ing to help out, and the brief included the context of the News Storyline data model.
News Archive Creative Studio Briefing – Belfast
Following the News Archive briefing in London yesterday, we ran the briefing in Belfast today. ~10 Indies from the Belfast area attended, to look at the scope and context for the News Archive Connected Studio process which is kicking off. You can read more about it here. Richard Cable introduced the News Archive editorial proposal. … Continue reading News Archive Creative Studio Briefing – Belfast
News Archive Creative Studio Briefing – London
Today we (News Labs as part of BBC Connected Studio) ran an event at the Shoreditch Village Hall, to brief potential participants of the News Archive Creative Studio with the background for the News Archive project. Here you can see the BBC News Labs “News Archive” presentation that explains how BBC News Archive content will … Continue reading News Archive Creative Studio Briefing – London
BBC News Labs – Christmas Season Asynchronous Workshop
The wider BBC News Labs group gathered* at The Bricklayers Arms in Shoreditch to discuss 2013, new ideas, and plans for 2014**. What does this mean? What is the benefit? After a very busy 6 months, this is an ideal time to hold a retrospective, and think about how to improve things for 2014. The … Continue reading BBC News Labs – Christmas Season Asynchronous Workshop
BBC Online Briefing, December 2013, with BBC News Labs
We talked briefly about BBC News Labs at the Online Briefing, as part of BBC Connected Studio’s segment. Fiona Bruce was presenting the session, and I outlined our plans and approach. See video at 24:30: BBC Online Briefing 2013 – Connected Studio Video.
Finnish Public Broadcaster YLE and BBC News Labs
Pia Virtanen from Finnish Broadcaster YLE was visiting BBC News Labs today.
SKY NEWS and BBC News Labs
James Murphy and Paul Fairless from the SKY News team popped into BBC News Labs today.
BBC News Labs and Financial Times
BBC News Labs visited FT today, to discuss collaboration opportunities, following the #newsHACK.
BBC News Labs at Silicon Milk Roundabout #smr6
Earlier today (from 11am to 5pm) BBC News had a stand at Silicon Milk Roundabout 2013. We were there to show off what the BBC News & BBC Weather teams were doing, and to see if there were any potential new recruits for BBC. We took the names of 150 interested developers! The stand and … Continue reading BBC News Labs at Silicon Milk Roundabout #smr6
BBC News Labs at SeedCamp’s “SeedHack 4” (2013)
On 8th – 10th November 2013, BBC News Labs took THE JUICER data and the BBC News Labs APIs to SeedCamp’s SeedHack 4 in Google Campus. I stood up with Ontoba’s Paul Wilton and introduced the backstory of the News Labs “JUICER”, data and News Labs APIs available from The Juicer platform, and provided the … Continue reading BBC News Labs at SeedCamp’s “SeedHack 4” (2013)
Rapid Prototyping at #newsHACK
BBC Academy put together this video to briefly explain how BBC News Labs is using Rapid Prototyping at #newsHACK.
BBC News Labs at Mozfest 2013
On 25th – 27th October 2013, Jeremy Tarling, Ant Miller and I visited MozFest. We demonstrated Storyline Ivy – a prototype from #newsHACK The News Juicer & News Labs APIs demo And generally talked about BBC News Labs
The Guardian visit News Labs
Following #newsHACK on October 17th, Ceclia and Fielding from The Guardian office in New York, popped into BBC News Labs to have a chat about collaboration in the future.
Demos from #newsHACK – 27 Prototypes demo sessions & 7 Prize Winners
See the demos and prizewinners from the #newsHACK 2013 event. A few moments: The Mirror team’s “Rubix News” The Sky News team hack demo My former boss Anthony Sullivan (who was a judge, and is now at Guardian) giving an award to the Sky News team Me Introducing the judges Robin Pembrooke awarding “Best in … Continue reading Demos from #newsHACK – 27 Prototypes demo sessions & 7 Prize Winners
#newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio
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
Winners of #newsHACK 2013
You can see the Winners of #newsHACK 2013 here on the newsHACK website. Winners of newsHACK 2013 1) Best in Show Award Presented by Robin Pembrooke (Head of News & Weather Products, BBC) Awarded to : The Perspectivator (Financial Times). 2) Best Live & Breaking News Experience Presented by Nic Newman (Independent Strategist, Trainer, … Continue reading Winners of #newsHACK 2013