Clare Spencer

Senior Research and Development Producer at BBC News Labs
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Biography

Clare started working at the BBC in 2005. Before joining News Labs she was a writer on the Africa desk of the BBC News website. She has also made radio documentaries, produced videos and is a photographer. Her work has taken her to some pretty unusual places ranging from a scout camp in Madagascar’s highlands to a gong bath on a London bus.

Projects and blog posts

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Contributors

Identifying the most-used contributors to news stories.
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Multilingual Article Tracker (Mat)

Matching translated news articles with the original English-language text.
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Frank - Building a lingua franca through machine translation

Translating BBC articles from 40+ languages into English for better visibility and discovery.

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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