With as many as 30 million smart speakers sold worldwide, innovative journalists are looking to voice-controlled news distribution as a new way to reach audiences. Devices like Amazon Echo and Google Assistant are quickly creeping into people’s homes, playing music, making calls, setting alarms and timers, asking questions, checking calendars, weather, traffic and sports scores, […]
Slides and audio – Building the news: In-house tools for the newsroom
In this session, we looked at the resources needed in the newsroom to develop tools and templates, the collaborative approach between developers and journalists and the open-source movement. We heard from Nick Petrie, deputy head of digital, The Times and The Sunday Times, Jacqui Maher, interactive journalist, BBC News Labs and Elliot Bentley, graphics editor, The Wall Street Journal. […]