Broadcasters

Photos and updates from Matt Shearer’s work with Broadcasters. Mostly with the BBC,

Video Moment Innovation in Los Angeles

July 12, 2019Broadcasters, Product Management, TravelAmy Shearer, Evelio, LA - Los Angeles - California, Luminery, R&D, Russel Shearer, Shearers, Tommy Rusling, USAMatt Shearer

A visit to work with the guys at EAI (now SEEEN) on how we market test more of the Luminery Video Moment innovation tools.

San Francisco & Google – Winter Visit

December 4, 2015BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Catch-up, Collaboration Work, News Organisations, TravelGoogle, Google Campus, InAndOutBurger, San FranciscoMatt Shearer

From a cold and wintry London, some business at Google brought me to San Francisco, and I was able to catch up with Amy, Russ, Susan & family.

Innovation Collboration in Berlin – MIZ Babelsberg Workshop

October 21, 2015BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News OrganisationsBBC R&D, BBC R&D North Lab, Berlin, Chris Pike, Germany, Innovation, Paul Wakely, Virtual RealityMatt Shearer

An interesting 2 day innovation workshop in Berlin, at MIZ Babelsberg, to look at some innovation opportunities with the German public broadcaster ZDF.

Hamburg for #NewsTech15 – Newsroom Technology (EUROVISION)

June 12, 2015BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, TravelARD, EBU, Europe, Eurovision, Germany, Hamburg, NDR, Public Service Broadcasters, RTV Slovenija, SVT, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), TV Gallery, TV StudioMatt Shearer

I’ve just spent the last 2 days with a group of European Public Service Broadcasters from Turkey, Sweden, Slovenia, France, Germany, Bulgaria and more.

#newsHACK London 2015 – The News Industry Accelerator

June 4, 2015BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News Organisations#newsHACK, Financial Times, Innovation, London, Martin Moore, Robin Pembrooke, shoreditch, SKY NEWS, Steve Herrmann, Swansea University, The Conversation, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Times, Trinity Mirror, Wall Street JournalMatt Shearer

We’ve just held #newsHACK in London, in partnership with Global Editors Network, and including an impressive spread of News organisations.

#NEWSGEIST 2015: The Future of News – Unconference in Helsinki

May 18, 2015Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News Organisations, Travel#NEWSGEIST, Anthony Sullivan, Deutsche Welle, Europe, Finland, Google, Helsinki, James Montgomery, Journalism, Nic Newman, The Guardian, The Telegraph, UnconferenceMatt Shearer

Just spent an enjoyable, and mentally draining unconference weekend with 150 of the great and the good from European Journalism @NEWSGEIST 2015 in Helsinki.

BBC News Labs in NHK Research Publication – Feb 2015

February 25, 2015BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration WorkInnovation, Japan, NHK, Public Service Broadcasters, TakanobuMatt Shearer

Kindly, Takanobu from NHK sent the NHK Monthly Report on Broadcast Research to us at News Labs, and it features Storyline and #newsHACK write ups, in Japanese.

Visit to SKY NEWS

January 15, 2015BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News OrganisationsGeorge Richmond, James Murphy, Laden Oksuzer, London, SKY, SKY NEWS, TV Gallery, TV StudioMatt Shearer

At last we got around to visiting James Murphy, George, Laden et al down at the SKY complex in Osterly.

#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”.

SKY NEWS Labs Visits BBC NEWS Labs – Part II

November 21, 2014At BBC, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News OrganisationsGeorge Richmond, Innovation, James Murphy, Laden Oksuzer, SKY, SKY NEWSMatt Shearer

Today James Murphy from SKY NEWS Labs visited us in the Central Lab again, and this time he brought along George and Laden along. The previous time James visited was almost exactly 1 year ago – 20th November 2013 – straight after we met at #newsHACK 2013. We shared our projects updates, talked about shared issues, … Continue reading SKY NEWS Labs Visits BBC NEWS Labs – Part II →

Melody Kramer from NPR visits News Labs

October 23, 2014At BBC, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News OrganisationsJournalism, Melody Kramer, NPR (National Public Radio - USA)Matt Shearer

We had the pleasure of Melody Kramer popping into the Lab today.

Eurovision Academy with European Broadcasters, Geneva

September 18, 2014BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News Organisations, Travel3FM Netherlands, EBU, Eurovision, Geneva, Justin Kings, News Storytelling, RTP Portugal, RTVE Lab, RTVE Spain, SwitzerlandMatt Shearer

I’ve just spent 2 days at the Eurovision Academy looking at digital storytelling formats & challenges with a group of European Public Broadcasters. Fascinating.

#newsHACK 2 “Dublin Branch” – Team & Photos

May 3, 2014BBC Connected Studio, BBC News, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, Collaboration Work, News Organisations, Rapid Prototyping, Stage Appearences#newsHACK, BBC News Labs Partners, Catherine Boggan, Dublin, Financial Times, Hackathon, Harry Robbins, Ireland, Irish Independent, Kate Coughlan, Laura Harrison, Laure Nouraout, Lauren Moorhouse, Melanie Moeller, Michael Satterthwaite, Miles Bernie, News Labs APIs, News Storyline Ontology, Paul Wilton, Peter Rippon, Rob Liddle, Russell Smith, SKY NEWS, Storyful, The TimesMatt Shearer

Great event in Dublin & Glasgow – will add more soon. – see #newsHACK hashtag for updates, and #newsHACK website.

Japan’s Public Broadcaster NHK visits BBC NEWS LABS

March 19, 2014At BBC, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Broadcasters, News OrganisationsInnovation, Japan, NHK, Public Service Broadcasters, TakanobuMatt Shearer

I had the pleasure of hosting Takanobu from NHK, Japan’s public service broadcaster, yesterday at the central lab. Takanobu joined us for our fortnightly team catch up, and ran a interview with me too. NHK are also thinking about building their innovation work, and so are looking at the possible models for this.