Driving innovation for BBC News.
This account is part of an experiment from BBC R&D in establishing a BBC presence in the Fediverse. You can read more about this experiment at https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
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
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
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.
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
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
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/
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
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/
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster @BBCRD@social.bbc I think we're planning to publish some more information soon...
@hobbitswife@mastodon.me.uk just busy making things, sorry!
