Journalism

#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.

Visit to Goldsmiths MA class for Computational Journalism

May 13, 2015Collaboration WorkGoldsmiths, Journalism, Journalism Qualifications, London, Miranda McLachlan, New Cross, South LondonMatt Shearer

After a quick chat with Miranda McLachlan at HacksHackersLondon, she kindly invited me in to visit the University, and to meet her MA class in computational journalism.

#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”.

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.

Academy College of Journalism video on Rapid Prototyping

June 17, 2014At BBC, BBC News, BBC News Labs, Rapid PrototypingCollege of Journalism, George Wright, Journalism, Melanie Moeller, Miles Bernie, prototypes, Richard Lynton-Evans, Rob Liddle, The Juicer, Window on The Newsroom PrototypeMatt Shearer

The BBC Academy College of Journalism just published this video about Rapid Prototyping with BBC News Labs.

The Newsroom of Things for ISKO UK – Taming the News Beast

April 2, 2014BBC News Labs, Speaking Appearences, Stage AppearencesISKO, ISKOUK, Jeremy Tarling, Journalism, Journalism as Data, Linked Data, News Storyline Ontology, UCLMatt Shearer

Jeremy Tarling and I both gave talks yesterday at ISKO UK’s Taming the News Beast. Jeremy went into some detail about the News Storyline Ontology, and I talked about how BBC News Labs were planning to tame the news beast in terms of auto-tagging the Journalism data we store – text, images and AV – “The … Continue reading The Newsroom of Things for ISKO UK – Taming the News Beast →

#newsVANE project – combining ambient data sources & signals

February 24, 2014At BBC, BBC News, BBC News Labs, Collaboration Work, Rapid Prototyping, Writing for Other Blogs#newsVANE, Journalism, Journalism as Data, prototypes, The JuicerMatt Shearer

We’ve just kicked off a new project called #newsVANE.

Blog post for the College of Journalism

January 30, 2014At BBC, BBC News, BBC News Labs, Collaboration Work, Writing for Other BlogsCollege of Journalism, Innovation, JournalismMatt Shearer

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.

Open Innovation, Linked Data and Story Driven Journalism

November 28, 2013BBC OnlineInnovation, Journalism, News Storyline Ontology, UpdateMatt Shearer

Yesterday I posted an update on what BBC News Labs has been up to for the last few months: