New audience experiences

New ways to find and experience the news

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25 projects

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Tell Me More

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ReflEx

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Oriel

Active

Modus

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Live Highlights

Active

CuPid

Completed

Touchcast

Completed

Suggestr - connecting the News industry with BBC tags

Completed

Referend-erm.com

completed

NewsMap

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

Neurotech Rig

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

Live Segment Notifications

Alerting BBC audiences to live content about topics they're interested in
completed

Linked data on the TV

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

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

Guinea-Bissau is used by South American drug cartels as a route to smuggle cocaine to Europe. Hooked is a five-part report of the human impact of that trade in the style of a graphic novel.
completed

Growing Global Audiences

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

Graphical Storytelling

Reaching new audiences with short comics about important health stories
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

VodSounds

Publishing audio versions of TV shows to BBC Sounds.
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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