Pietro Passarelli

Former News Labs Software Engineer
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Biography

Pietro is a web developer in News Labs. He is interested in making tools for journalists as well as new editorial story formats. In particular he gets excited about projects at the intersection of audio/video production and software development. He previously worked in video production as a documentary film-maker.

Projects and blog posts

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Crossing Divides

An interactive news game to give BBC audiences new skills for navigating polarised conversations.
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Digital Paper Edit

Experimental tool that allows producers to create 'rough cuts' of audio and video programmes, working from an automatically generated transcript.
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Audiogram Generator

A tool for turning audio content into video files that can be shared on social media.

Meet the Team

Alli Shultes

Junior Software Engineer

Anna Błaziak

Junior Software Engineer

Ben Nuttall

Software Engineer

Clare Spencer

Journalist

Conor Molumby

Senior Journalist

Dave Bevan

Senior Systems Engineer

David Caswell

Executive Product Manager

James Dooley

Senior Software Engineer

Jo Kent

Data Architect

Lei He

Senior Software Engineer

Matthew Sim

Graduate Software Engineer

Miles Bernie

Head of Product

Nik Rahmel

Software Engineering Manager

Owen Tourlamain

Graduate Broadcast Engineer

Remi Oduyemi

Software Engineer

Robert McKenzie

Editor

Rob French

Graduate Broadcast Engineer

Roo Hutton

Senior Software Engineer

Sarah Rainbow

Graduate Software Engineer

Tamsin Green

Senior Software Engineer

Elsewhere on News Labs

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

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

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How BBC World Service fights the coronavirus infodemic with chat bots

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