Joe Whitwell

Journalist at BBC News Labs
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Biography

Joe is a former member of the editorial team at News Labs. He spent his time in newsrooms making sure that News Labs built tools that could be used easily by our journalists.

Projects and blog posts

06 July 2021

Chapters to discover and share - The Today programme pilots Slicer for greater online impact

The details of a trial run with the Today programme and BBC Sounds.
27 August 2020

Coronavirus is changing journalism. Will its impact on newsrooms last?

News Labs speaks to a range of voices in the industry
13 December 2019

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

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

#newsHack report: Storytelling with voice

A report on how nine teams got on at our biggest hack of the year.
project

CuPid

Editorial control of news curation for personalisation
project

Depth Finder

Making the BBC's analysis, explainers and interactive features more discoverable
project

Evergreen Content

An experiment in identifying existing BBC content that relates to current Google Trends data.
project

Graphical Storytelling

Reaching new audiences with short comics about important health stories
project

Guiding Hand

Automatically cropping images.
project

Live Page Translation

Aggregating multilingual live page content through automatic translations.
project

Modus

Semi-automatically creating new story modes
project

Segmenting broadcast content with The News Slicer

The News Slicer segments and tags BBC TV and radio broadcasts using running orders and transcripts.
project

Salco - Semi-Automated Local Content

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

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

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