Innovation in Berlin – MIZ Babelsberg Workshop
An interesting 2 day jaunt to Berlin, and Babelsberg, to look at some innovation opportunities with the German public broadcaster ZDF.
News Organisations
#newsHACK London 2015 – The News Industry Accelerator
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
Just spent an enjoyable, and mentally draining unconference weekend with 150 of the great and the good from European Journalism @NEWSGEIST 2015 in Helsinki.
Visit to SKY NEWS
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
#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
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
We had the pleasure of Melody Kramer popping into the Lab today.
Eurovision Academy with European Broadcasters, Geneva
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 II – Dublin & Glasgow, May 2014
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 2 “Dublin Branch” – Team & Photos
Great event in Dublin & Glasgow – will add more soon. – see #newsHACK hashtag for updates, and #newsHACK website.
#newsHACK II Announced – Partnered with #EditorsLab
See this post announcing #newsHACK II – a co-production with Global Editors Network. The event will take place in 2 venues – Glasgow and Dublin. Universities and News Organisations can sign up for #newsHACK II here.
Japan’s Public Broadcaster NHK visits BBC NEWS LABS
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.
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.
Finnish Public Broadcaster YLE Visits BBC News Labs
Pia Virtanen from Finnish Broadcaster YLE was visiting BBC News Labs today. YLE are investing in semantic web technology, and are having a look at what the BBC have done in the Linked Data space. Interestingly, it seems they have solved the TV License approach by having a “Tax at source” tax called “Media Tax” … Continue reading Finnish Public Broadcaster YLE Visits BBC News Labs
SKY NEWS Visits BBC News Labs
James Murphy and Paul Fairless from the SKY News team popped into BBC News Labs today. Following the success of #newsHACK, we were discussing next steps on News Storyline Ontology and Linked Data collaboration opportunities.
BBC News Labs visits Financial Times
BBC News Labs visited FT today, to discuss collaboration opportunities, following the #newsHACK. There looks to be some great opportunities here in the Linked Data areas – watch this space.
Rapid Prototyping at #newsHACK
BBC Academy put together this video to briefly explain how BBC News Labs is using Rapid Prototyping at #newsHACK.
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