In March 2019 BBC News Labs and Connected Studio brought together over 60 professionals from the fields of technology development and journalism for our latest #newsHACK looking at tools to help investigative journalists. Thom Hetherington reports.

You might have seen some stories on the BBC News website that say they were generated using “some automation”. BBC News Labs’ Roo Hutton explains how we’re experimenting with semi-automated journalism to bring you even more relevant local stories.

It is easy to assume that the future of news will be inevitably technical, writes News Labs’ executive product manager David Caswell. That assumption is dangerous.

In November this year, News Labs collaborated with BBC Connected Studio and BBC World Service to hold a #newsHACK event in New Delhi, India. Software engineers Remi Oduyemi, James Dooley and Eimi Okuno share what they learnt and what they built during the event.

Senior journalist Zoe Murphy shares what she learned about writing news for young people, after one year on BBC Research and Development’s New News project.