New audience experiences

New ways to find and experience the news

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17 projects

Active

Graphical Storytelling

Completed

19 Million Project

Completed

BBC Minute CatchUp - Pilot from RLabs in Cape Town

Completed

Babels and News Rig - Multilingual Journalism Workflows

Completed

Data Pic - infographic builder for School Report

Completed

External Links Manager

Completed

Gifenator

Completed

Growing Global Audiences

Completed

Hooked - A graphic novel about the drugs trade in Guinea-Bissau

completed

Linked data on the TV

LDPTV is a project for surfacing more News content via smart TVs
completed

Neurotech Rig

In partnership with Imperial College London, News Labs has been looking into Neurotech feedback around media experiences.
completed

NewsMap

See News headlines, from 400+ publishers across the globe, on a map. This experiment was aimed at large displays, at expos.
completed

Referend-erm.com

Launched to help explain issues to young scottish voters in the 2014 Scottish Referendum.
completed

Suggestr - connecting the News industry with BBC tags

A new intuitive and quick way of tagging news articles with linked data concepts, which opens the BBC's structured data to benefit local News organisations.
completed

Touchcast

During late 2013 BBC News Labs ran a set of Touchcast pilots, and Touchcast moved to production in 2014.
in use

360 Video & VR - Immersive News

We are looking into the craft, applications and audience experience around 360 video filming and VR for Immersive News.
in use

BBC for Voice User Interfaces

We’ve been leading the way in exploring how the corporation should sound on smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo.

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