Chris Nicholson

Former News Labs Senior Software Engineer
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Biography

Chris is a former senior software engineer at the BBC.

He worked 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.
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Multilingual Article Tracker (Mat)

Matching translated news articles with the original English-language text.
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Tell Me More

Contextualising complex news by generating semi-automated explanations

Meet the Team

Alicia Grandjean

Senior Software Engineer

Ben Nuttall

Senior Software Engineer

Clare Spencer

Senior Research and Development Producer

Dave Bevan

Senior Systems Engineer

Jack McPoland

Software Engineer

Julie McManus

Senior Software Engineer

Lee Fuller

Software Engineering Manager

Manjiri Carey

News Editor

Marie Rasmussen

UX Designer

Miranda Marcus

Executive Product Manager

Philip Hatcher-Moore

Journalist

Sarah Rainbow

Senior Software Engineer

Sevi Sariisik Tokalac

Senior Research and Development Producer

Tom Francis-Winnington

Senior Software Engineer

Elsewhere on News Labs

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A translation quality assessment by journalists for journalists

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News for All: Delivering value in journalism

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Salco 2023: Making news hyperlocal

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