Conor Molumby

Former News Labs Senior Journalist
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Biography

Conor is a former senior journalist in News Labs. Areas he is particularly interested in include using data in storytelling and automation. He previously worked as a business news reporter and in enterprise software.

Projects and blog posts

17 December 2021

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

Early innovators use their data science skills to collaborate with Labs on some of our biggest challenges
23 August 2021

Can we fix the knowledge management problem in news?

An update on our latest experiments in making the news more understandable for all audiences
17 December 2020

Creating new story formats from text articles - replay our webinar

Labbers shared their latest work at the JournalismAI festival.
09 December 2020

#newsHack report: Personalising news experiences with modular content

12 teams shared ideas in our first ever fully-remote hack.
07 October 2020

Graphical storytelling: Extracting and painting a fresh perspective

BBC News trials a new story format on social media.
28 July 2020

House of Lords hears latest trends from Labs

Committee inquiry on the future of journalism includes evidence on how innovation can help public service journalism.
20 May 2020

Audience questions: Could the Explainer Builder have the answers?

What we've learned so far in 2020 from a new prototype for journalists and audiences.
13 December 2019

General election 2019: Semi-automation makes it a night of 689 stories

A report on the biggest ever News Labs experiment.
28 November 2019

Trees, machines and local journalism

Out latest experiments with Semi-Automatic Local Content (Salco).
18 November 2019

#newsHack report: Storytelling with voice

A report on how nine teams got on at our biggest hack of the year.
07 November 2019

Mozfest 2019: Multidisciplinary teams focus on collaboration and audiences

Labbers Conor Molumby and Eimi Okuno report on a day of interactive sessions.
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CuPid

Editorial control of news curation for personalisation
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The Explainer Builder

An experiment in using a single source of truth for journalists creating explainers.
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Graphical Storytelling

Reaching new audiences with short comics about important health stories
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Modus

Semi-automatically creating new story modes
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Oriel

Making it easier for journalists to find the best images for stories
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ReflEx

Knowledge management for news teams and audiences
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Salco - Semi-Automated Local Content

Semi-automated local stories about election results, NHS performance and more

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

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