#011 — Laura Ellis: Emerging technology at the BBC

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#011 — Laura Ellis: Emerging technology at the BBC

Mind Narrative

1 hour 51 seconds

4 years ago

#011 — Laura Ellis: Emerging technology at the BBC

Laura Ellis is a journalist and technologist with special interests in machine learning, disinformation and data. She has worked on news teams in radio, TV, and online as a reporter, producer and Editor.

She has led two of BBC the BBC’s Regional News and Current Affairs teams, establishing the corporation's first end-to-end digital newsroom.

In her current role she focuses on ensuring the BBC is best placed to take advantage of emerging technology and also takes a particular interest in the technology ethics, personalised and automated journalism.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction

0:58 Who is Laura?

0:32 Emerging tech – The last 10 years

4:36 Some of Laura's cool emerging tech projects at the BBC

8:32 Emerging tech – Balancing risks and opportunities

11:51 Approach to curation and personalisation

14:38 The end-user experience

16:48 Disinformation, misinformation, media provenance and project ''origin''

19:02 Renee DiResta and other prominent investigative journalists

22:09 Algorithms

23:55 The size of platforms today and their impact, media provenance

25:23 Should platforms be treated as publishers?

28:29 The state and future of media provenance (C2PA)

31:08 The future of journalism – robot, automated journalism

35:10 The power of personalised content – risks and opportunities

37:46 The invisible force of global media and its influence on end-users

39:09 Linear and digital journalism

42:08 The difference between linear and digital journalism

44:37 BBC Media, Tech & Society: Conference + Fair

48:55 CogX Ethics Stage, Laura Ellis and Renee DiResta – personalised recommenders

50:26 What's next for you?

53:10 What are the conversations we have a duty to continue/start discussing?

55:34 News that your regularly read?

56:42 Your reading or other dynamics that influence your current role at the BBC

59:01 What are the skills and/or character traits that helped you so far in your life?