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BBC World Service 2020 Indian Expansion Bringing Impartial news to an unstable world
BBC World Service
▪ Provides accurate, impartial and independent news and
information in English and 28* languages around the world
▪ On radio, television and digital and social media
▪ Distributed via 1500 radio, TV and digital partners and FM
relays
▪ Forms part of the World Service Group with Global News Ltd
(World News and bbc.com), BBC Monitoring and Media Action
The World Service Group now reaches a total
audience of 320m per week
Social media added
a 19.6m incremental
audience
283 million
Last Year This Year
Weekly reach up 13%, +38 million since last year
320 million
Global reach of World
Service Group
MENA
48.2m
Europe
38.7m
Latin
America
16.1m
North
America
40.8m
Sub-Saharan
Africa
92.5m
Australasia
3.4m
East / South
East Asia
17.3m
West /
Central Asia
20.6m
South
Asia
42.8m
BBC Global Audience Measure, Updated March 2016
India
▪ The BBC World Service undergoing its biggest expansion since the 1940s
▪ This includes four new Indian services - Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi -
creating 157 new jobs in the region, and making Delhi the BBC’s largest bureau
outside the UK.
▪ Delhi will become a video production hub for the region
▪ The new language services will be digitally led - mobile first offerings with significant TV
and video output.
BBC News Labs Driving innovation for News
@BBC_News_Labs
Miles Bernie & Alli Shultes
> Overview of News Labs: What? Why? How? Who?
> Portfolio overview
> Sample projects
Agenda
@BBC_News_Labs
What?
@BBC_News_Labs
News
R&D
@BBC_News_Labs
Products & Systems
We are a partnership
Journalism
Data
@BBC_News_Labs
Technology
& workflow
We explore opportunities
3-5
months 3-5 years
@BBC_News_Labs
3-5
quarters
To different timeframes
Why?
@BBC_News_Labs
We build
new tools for journalists
&
new experiences
for audiences.
@BBC_News_Labs
Harness and retain BBC talent
Find better ways of working
Raise our external profile as innovators
Test new opportunities efficiently
Support transfer to production
@BBC_News_Labs
How? @BBC_News_Labs
~15 - 20 active projects
Run as an incubator @BBC_News_Labs
Lean
> Light touch
> Small teams
> Share knowledge
> Fail fast (or succeed faster!)
> Low risk
@BBC_News_Labs
Who?
@BBC_News_Labs
@BBC_News_Labs
> Software engineers
> UX Designers
> Front-end developers
> Journalists
We are….
taken from ...
@BBC_News_Labs
> Attachments
> Hiring and contracting
> Graduate Schemes
> Google News Labs
Fellowships
@BBC_News_Labs
We foster industry and
academic partnerships
@BBC_News_Labs
> #newsHACK events
> University Challenges
> Academic partnerships: Goldsmiths
UCL
Teesside Uni
> Trust Project Challenge
We drive innovation
across the industry.
@BBC_News_Labs
Portfolio Overview
@BBC_News_Labs
Analytics
Recommen
dations
Onward
journeys
Automated
At scale!
gfx, av. text
Manual &
Auto
Structured
Less
monolithic
Object
based
Broadcast &
digital
converged
Tools &
workflow
Simple
Converged
Connected
Data
Journalism Personal
Audience
& Industry:
Partnership
s
Events
Growth Language
Tech
Themes
Sample Projects
Simple
Converged
Connected
Data
Journalism Personal
(Audience)
Growth
Language
Tech
Language Technology
@BBC_News_Labs
Automated Language Tool
(ALTO) Stitch
Conversational User Interfaces
@BBC_News_Labs
BBC Mundo Messenger
Bot
Google Home Action
for BBC News In-Article Chatbots
News innovation: Opportunities for the Indian digital industry
#BBCConnected @BBC_Connected
How might we use technology and data in news to reach new digital audiences across India?
Tools to uncover compelling stories from data.
Tools to uncover compelling stories from data.
✓Technical solutions for handling large data sets
✓BBC technical resources - Juicer/Freebird
✓Defining “compelling stories” from data?
✓Scalability
Tools to present data based stories to audiences in new, visual, compelling ways.
✓Moving beyond simple charts and flat images
✓Data costs and connection speed
✓Addressing different types of stories
Audience Insights
What we do want
✓A way to expose compelling data stories
✓A scalable tool to visualise compelling data
stories, attracting new, young, digital
audiences
✓A shareable, interactive news experience
What we don’t want
✗New editorial services and ideas
✗Bespoke solutions for one off stories
✗Native apps
A collaboration
Dev & UX teams Editorial & dev experts
How to get involved
The Invitation to Tender (ITT)
Important document that contains:
• The brief
• Judging/success criteria
• Skills needed in the team (eg developers, UX
design)
• Funding
Timeline
1
Response to ITT (open, unpaid)
8th - 19th May
2
Detailed proposal (Shortlisted, paid)
6th June
3
Final build (Shortlisted, paid)
September 2017
bbc.co.uk/connectedstudio bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/juicer
Useful information
@BBC_Connected
✓Register interest with us to get info
Download ITT doc and submit via email by 19th
May
All useful information and resource accessible
online
Recap of process
@BBC_Connected
Q&A