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ABOUT US “Driving Innovation in News” ABOUT US “Driving Innovation in News” NEW TECH AND DATA OPPORTUNITIES NEW JOURNALISM FORMATS EXPLORE VIA PROTOTYPING EXPLORE VIA PROTOTYPING

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

INFORM EDUCATE ENTERTAIN

Storytelling with BBC (+) content past & present GLOBAL CURATION

HOW?

“Stuff & Tings” (and stuff) The Newsroom of THINGS

TEXT …well explored in

is next AV Media

Stuff & Things (all 6 bits is holy grail) 1.Verbatim transcript (to time) 2.Contributors (face recog and voice recog) 3.Objects (audio & image recog) 4.Scene geolocation 5.Topics (and fingerprinted to Storylines – WAIT FOR IT*) 6.Actions & Events (non verbal) * Jeremy is telling you in a few mins…

GLOBAL CURATION MACHINES DO HEAVY LIFTING. Discovery MACHINES DO HEAVY LIFTING. Discovery HUMAN JOURNALISTS: Amazing Creative Efficiency HUMAN JOURNALISTS: Amazing Creative Efficiency MORE MACHINE WORK Connecting and Surfacing MORE MACHINE WORK Connecting and Surfacing juicer #newsVANE Stuff & Things Trends & Signals

WINDOW ON NEWSROOM (private juicer) Now: R&D JUICER

“THINGS” AT PRESENT: Topics: PEOPLE, PLACES, ORGANISATIONS & themes. NEAR FUTURE: Storylines: curated “Story” – an editorial THING

What’s the content?

Unique Things

…used how many times?

Summary figures 680,000 articles tagged with 5,700,000 tags ~8 tags per article

We save a lot of manual tag time

GLOBAL JUICER

Next : Window on the Newsroom (+AV)

Next year: GLOBAL JUICER

Buzz: Journalism as Data MetaJournalism

COME HAVE A GO!! 1 st & 2 nd May. #newsHACK II Glasgow & Dublin 1 st & 2 nd May. #newsHACK II Glasgow & Dublin newsHACK.co.uk

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