New audience experiences

New ways to find and experience the news

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18 projects

Active

Modus

Active

Graphical Storytelling

Completed

Touchcast

Completed

Suggestr - connecting the News industry with BBC tags

Completed

Referend-erm.com

Completed

NewsMap

Completed

Neurotech Rig

Completed

Linked data on the TV

Completed

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

completed

Growing Global Audiences

A programme of international innovation activities, aimed at harnessing localised industry talent to explore new opportunities.
completed

Gifenator

The Gifenator allows journalists to capture frames from live broadcast streams to republish as GIFs on social media channels.
completed

External Links Manager

ELMer is a prototype for automating external linking from BBC News stories.
completed

Data Pic - infographic builder for School Report

BBC News Labs ran several maker sessions at the BBC during 2014 and early 2015.
completed

Babels and News Rig - Multilingual Journalism Workflows

A prototype workflow for reversioning content into multiple languages, and controlling an on demand multilingual news service.
completed

BBC Minute CatchUp - Pilot from RLabs in Cape Town

A web-widget that embeds into existing websites and webpages and offers users the latest Global news in just 60 seconds.
completed

19 Million Project

A combination of a hack event and an education summit designed to deepen our understanding of the refugee crisis and develop innovative ways to tell the story.
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.
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.

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