Developing automated user generated content filtering tools for news events

User generated content can be a great addition to a news story, but it can be hard to curate an overwhelming amount of material. We are developing tools to help...

Blog post on 3 Nov 2021

Creating automatic video summaries with text queries

Can we auto summarise a video to help producers and editors work efficiently?

Blog post on 1 Jul 2021

Helping to Automate Storytelling for News Events

Helping journalists automate the way they find and organise video.

Blog post on 6 May 2020

Visual Data Analytics

The BBC is famous for high-quality content, stunning visuals and breath-taking pictures. The visual data analytics group in BBC Research & Development is creating new and efficient artificial intelligence (AI)...

Project

The News and Mental Health: Would You Filter Out Bad News if You Could?

A sprint to user-test a 'mute' button for some kinds of news.

Blog post on 19 Aug 2019

New Ideas for Investigative Journalism at #newsHACK

What happens when students, start-ups and national newspapers try to develop ideas around investigative journalism?

Blog post on 16 May 2019

Connected Studio - 2018 in Review

Another busy year, focussing on the adoption of technology and growing our community of practice.

Blog post on 31 Dec 2018

BBC News Labs - 2018 Year in Review

News Labs, the BBC’s innovation team, has been through a lot of change in 2018.

Blog post on 28 Dec 2018

Beyond 800 Words: What User Testing Taught Me About Writing News for Young People

The changing media consumption habits of young people are a huge threat - or opportunity, depending on how you look at it.

Blog post on 6 Dec 2018

Reinventing the News Article

Online news has been enhanced and improved with new technologies but it still works on the assumption that ‘one size fits all’. We're developing new story formats for BBC News...

Project

Beyond 800 Words: News Formats for Personalising and Understanding

Testing adaptable news with hard to reach audiences: Generation Z & women aged 28-45.

Blog post on 20 Nov 2018

Beyond 800 Words: Prototyping New Story Formats for News

Developing new story formats for news - can we make something new and better?

Blog post on 18 Jul 2018

2017 in Review - News Labs

Experiments with news for voice devices, bespoke chatbots, international hackathons and more...

Blog post on 26 Dec 2017

Mobile-First News for Young People - Our Findings from Newsbeat Explains

Our research into a new format - atomised news - for younger audiences which is now being used in election coverage.

Blog post on 18 May 2017

2016 in Review - BBC News Labs

Looking back at innovation in journalism during 2016.

Blog post on 28 Dec 2016