Remi Oduyemi

Former News Labs Software Engineer
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Biography

Remi joined the News Labs family in September 2017. She enjoys exploring ways to enhance experiences for News audiences and journalists with leading edge immersive technology such as bots, facial recognition and augmented reality.

Projects and blog posts

07 October 2020

Graphical storytelling: Extracting and painting a fresh perspective

BBC News trials a new story format on social media.
10 February 2020

Graphical Storytelling: Three things we tested

Labs software engineer Remi Oduyemi describes our recent experiments with new story formats.
05 February 2019

The challenges of debunking fake news in India

Plus, four possible solutions from our latest #newsHACK.
27 February 2018

Face recognition: what use is it to newsrooms?

We built a prototype to highlight and identify the most important people in raw video footage. Here's what we learned during the process.
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Basic English Explanations (BeX)

A text editor that calculates the readability of a piece of written content.
project

Bots

We're exploring how bots can help the BBC reach new audiences and simplify workflow for our editors and journalists.
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The Explainer Builder

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

Graphical Storytelling

Reaching new audiences with short comics about important health stories
project

Modus

Semi-automatically creating new story modes
project

ReflEx

Knowledge management for news teams and audiences
project

BBC for Voice User Interfaces

We’ve been leading the way in exploring how the corporation should sound on smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo.

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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