News

Personalisation – Make more out of your data to better reach your audiences

Media companies are today sitting on a goldmine of data, which is a prime opportunity to sharpen the aim of their product. We’ve come across some interesting solutions.

Lab 351: Innovation-in-a-box approach allows anyone in the company to develop their ideas and entrepreneurial skills

The Globe and Mail encourages all employees in the company to pitch as many innovative ideas as they can even if they are at the back of napkin stage.

AP Innovation: Including everyone in the organisation in the innovation process

The Associated Press is developing a worldwide hub through internal and external innovation efforts to encourage a culture of experimentation and collaboration within the organisation.

Media Lab Day participants go home full of new ideas, contacts and possible partnerships

‘Collaboration’ was the key word at GAMI’s first Media Lab Day in Bordeaux. The heads of media labs repeatedly expressed their wish to work together in the future.

CPN – Content Personalisation Network

The CPN Project is researching and developing an improved personal news offer, enabling economic impact for large and small news publishers. WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation has joined the project to connect it with its network of media professionals that could benefit from it.

Hackastory: teaching coders and journalists how to collaborate

Building the future of journalism by organising journalism Hackathons where multidisciplinary teams of designers, coders and journalists work together.

InVID : Video verification project involving developers, academics and journalists

Short for ‘In video veritas’ (in video, there is truth), InVID is creating a platform that allows journalists to verify video content from social networks more easily.

Cross-Pollinating Innovation and “Magic” on America’s Coasts

The Brown Institute’s mission is to explore new forms of storytelling, with the intent of furthering both engineering research and journalistic practice.

DMJX Media Maker Space: where the Danish School of Media and Journalism meets its community

The Media Maker Space is deliberately not called a ‘Lab’, because they’re looking for co-creation rather than grand solutions.

J-Lab: aiding new media start-ups through training, consultancy and research

With over 10 years of experience, J-Lab is one of the oldest digital media innovation institutions. It offers media organisations training and support to develop new ways of reporting and engaging with their audiences.