New audience experiences

New ways to find and experience the news

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20 projects

Linked data on the TV

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

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.

Growing Global Audiences

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

Gifenator

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

External Links Manager

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

Data Pic - infographic builder for School Report

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

Babels and News Rig - Multilingual Journalism Workflows

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

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.

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.

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.

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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