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Matt Shearer

Innovation Manager

Blog posts in total 10

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  1. #newsHACK II - the results are in

    Multidiscipline teams made up of Journalists, Developers and Designers brainstormed ideas to address the competition theme: The Future of News Curation. They then built prototypes, or β€œhacks”, to demonstrate their ideas.

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  2. #newsHACK 2: participants and live updates

    Tomorrow morning the 2nd #newsHACK will kick off in Glasgow and Dublin. This News Industry Hack event is a partnership with Global Editors Network, and the event part of their global #EditorsLab programme.

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  3. #newsHACK II: info and API videos

    We've published some pre-event videos to help explain Storyline, and some of the APIs and tools that will be available to participants in the competition around "The future of News Curation".

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  4. #newsHACK II: the 2014 News Industry Innovation Event

    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Labs are pleased to announce #newsHACK II - a news industry innovation event on 1st & 2nd May 2014.

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  5. #newsVANE at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Labs

    How might we use combinations of our data sources to generate scalable relevance tools, so that we can promote the best connections across millions of content items & topics?

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  6. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Labs update: Open innovation, linked data in the newsroom and story driven journalism

    We ran a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Labs stand at the Mozilla Festival β€œScience Fair” to demonstrate and share the News Labs APIs and The Juicer, to talk about Storyline, and to see what was going on in the open source, hacker and maker innovation spaces.

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  7. News Hack 2013

    We saw some great rapid iterations on ideas with small, multidisciplinary teams. Each team had a chance to test their ideas in audience testing on the Thursday afternoon to get some real insight. Another key element was that teams used real data sources, rather than mocked up data.

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  8. News Hack: Storyline Video

    Storyline is an open (free to use) data model developed by some news industry data practitioners to allow the description of news stories (including articles, images, video, short text etc) using linked data.

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  9. News Labs and the News Juicer at Yahoo! Hack Europe

    The News Juicer is a platform that digests what we publish on bbc.co.uk/news

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  10. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Labs: linked data

    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Labs is an innovation project which ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News started during 2012.

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