Chris Nicholson

Senior Software Engineer at BBC News Labs
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Biography

Chris is a senior software engineer at the BBC.

He works on Internet Fit Radio, which involves extracting metadata from live production radio playout. He previously worked in the Proteus team and rearchitected some of that legacy system. Before that, he worked for BBC News & Knowledge in 2011, which involved R&D in Red Button, the old Ceefax system and the Pulsar stack in BBC News.

Projects and blog posts

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CuPid

Editorial control of news curation for personalisation
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IDX

Delivering linear output from local radio stations that allows its "best bits" to be effectively re-used/re-purposed in other parts of the BBC, outside the context of its originating programme.

Meet the Team

Anna Błaziak

Junior Software Engineer

Ben Nuttall

Senior Software Engineer

Chris Nicholson

Senior Software Engineer

Clare Spencer

Journalist

Dave Bevan

Senior Systems Engineer

Faith Ege

Software Engineer

Jack McPoland

Junior Software Engineer

Julie McManus

Senior Software Engineer

Lei He

Senior Software Engineer

Mahmoud Soliman

Senior Software Engineer

Miranda Marcus

Acting Head of News Labs

Rich Wareham

Senior Software Engineer

Sarah Rainbow

Software Engineer

Tamsin Green

Senior Software Engineer

Tom Francis-Winnington

Software Engineer

Zoë Thomas

Graduate Software Engineer

Elsewhere on News Labs

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Student challenge report: Imperial College London and the University of Oxford take on major questions facing the news industry

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Can we fix the knowledge management problem in news?

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Local, newsworthy and feel-good - the BBC’s new digital audio bulletins

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