BBC_News_Labs

BBC_News_Labs , 11 days ago to random

We're looking for two journalists to join our Cardiff-based team in News Labs, bringing ideas of how we can better deliver news to audiences, and help BBC journalists with innovation in the newsroom. https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Cardiff-Journalist%2C-News-Labs-CF10-1FT/795605902/

BBC_News_Labs , 26 days ago to random

Does showing media provenance — how it's made and verified — help build trust in news? We’ve been researching how #C2PA information affects audiences’ confidence in BBC images and videos, and what level of #contentcredentials are most useful... https://www.bbc.co.uk/rdnewslabs/news/does-provenance-build-trust

Diggory , 2 months ago to random

@BBC_News_Labs I know that this isn’t really your responsibility - but I’ve emailed twice about this and had no response.

What on earth is going on with the BBC News RSS feed?

So many duplicates and old articles coming back from the dead weeks after being marked as read.

Please tell me that someone is aware of this and is working on a fix?

BBC_News_Labs , 3 months ago to random

Our audiences deserve to know not just what we know, but how we know it. Using the #C2PA standard, BBC News is leading the way with a brand new feature to securely show how how we check and verify the material we use. Read more here: https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2024/content-credentials/

#news #journalism #disinformation #misinformation #technology

BBCRD , 3 months ago to random

From BBC Press Office:

New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.

‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.

http://bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/content-credentials-bbc-verify

#C2PA #news #journalism #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation | @BBC_News_Labs

BBC_News_Labs , 5 months ago to random

How would commercial translation and transcription models perform when faced with genuine news content, exacting journalists and the pressing demands of a newsroom? We devised a quality assessment to help BBC journalists decide.

https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/multilingual-assessment/

#machinetranslation #newsinnovation #journalism

BBC_News_Labs , 5 months ago to random

Here's Miranda on what BBC News Labs did in 2023, and what we'll be thinking about in 2024. https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/year-in-innovation/
#newsinnovation #journalism #mediainnovation

BBC_News_Labs , 8 months ago to random

Our latest guest post by Media Cymru fellow Shirish Kulkarni explores the cultural changes needed in journalism, and how we can give audiences more value by finding ways to tell different stories, in different ways

https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/2023-10-news-for-all/

#innovation #media #journalism

slowe , 8 months ago to random

@BBC_News_Labs Hi. I don't know if this is two-way or not. At some point a few years ago you created a hex cartogram for UK elections e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50770798 Obviously the constituencies have changed this year so you'll need a new map for the next General Election. We've already made a first draft of a 2023 layout that is open source so may I suggest you use that? https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/uk-constituencies-2023.hexjson

BBC_News_Labs , 8 months ago to random

It can be difficult to search the register where MPs list the gifts they receive.

A #JournalismAI fellowship collaboration between editorial and technology teams at the BBC and The Times is trying to fix this with #GenerativeAI.

https://www.journalismai.info/blog/mp-interests-tracker-utilising-genai-for-uncovering-insights-in-the-uk-register-of-financial-interest

hobbitswife , 8 months ago to random

@BBC_News_Labs 👋👋👋 you’ve gone AWOL. How are the experiments going?

BBC_News_Labs , 10 months ago to random

We built a tool for marking highlights on BBC iPlayer content and it's since been used for Eurovision, Glastonbury, Springwatch, Wimbledon and on BBC News live pages. Read more at https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/live-highlights/ #tv #technology #innovation

The live highlights interface shown during the Eurovision results

BBC_News_Labs , 10 months ago to random

The BBC creates news stories in more than 40 languages. So earlier this year we built a prototype to help keep track of them. https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/mat/

NIH_LLAMAS , 10 months ago to random

@BBC_News_Labs Why don't you have a main @ BBC or BBCNews account like you do on Tw*tter? That seems like the first thing everyone would be looking for.

BBC_News_Labs , 10 months ago to random

When telling big national news stories, can we deliver local digital versions to every town in the UK? What about to every ward? Read more about our latest experiment in semi-automated content generation here https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/salco-2023/

winstonsmith , 10 months ago to random

hey @BBC_News_Labs !

Is there a BBC World Service news feed I can follow on your instance?

Currently I'm following botsin.space or something to get that, which is probably not ideal

Tathar , 10 months ago to random

@BBC_News_Labs Will you be posting links to news articles on this account, or another one?

BBC_News_Labs , 10 months ago to random

Hi, we are BBC News Labs #introduction

We’re charged with driving innovation for BBC News. Our team of technologists and journalists explore how new tools and formats affect how news is found and reported.

You can find out more at https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/ and we’ll be posting here about our work

This account is part of an experiment from BBC R&D in establishing a BBC presence in the Fediverse.