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Robin Pembrooke

Director, News Product & Systems

Blog posts in total 11

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  1. Shifting gear with the World Service

    Shifting gear with the World Service

    Robin Pemborke, Director of News Products and Systems reviews the past year's achievements with the World Service.

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  2. Come and help transform the Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service

    Come and help transform the Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service

    The World Service is an extraordinary and unique organisation; it is the world’s largest international broadcaster, reaching over 320 million people every week on Radio, TV and Online in 29 different languages.

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  3. Ö÷²¥´óÐã News available on the new Apple News

    Ö÷²¥´óÐã News available on the new Apple News

    Apple has today launched their new Apple News service in the UK, and we’re pleased that Ö÷²¥´óÐã News is part of the new experience as it launches.

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  4. Digital News Discovery and the launch of Google AMP

    Digital News Discovery and the launch of Google AMP

    Google AMP is a new open and shared, web standard for publishing content pages, optimized for mobile consumption. Google have announced the initiative today and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã together with around 20 global publishers have been involved in the design and definition of the approach.

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  5. New Ö÷²¥´óÐã News website: digital General Election and your feedback

    New Ö÷²¥´óÐã News website: digital General Election and your feedback

    The Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app has been updated to include a special Election 2015 hub that provides access to all the election coverage

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  6. Ö÷²¥´óÐã News: a single web solution for everyone

    Ö÷²¥´óÐã News: a single web solution for everyone

    Over the next two weeks you’re going to see a lot of changes on Ö÷²¥´óÐã News online as we switch to a fully responsive website and go live with our General Election deliverables.

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  7. New Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app on Newswatch

    New Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app on Newswatch

    In the interview I talk about some of the features that we are looking to enhance in response to user feedback.

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  8. Supporting and enhancing the new Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app

    Supporting and enhancing the new Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app

    We’ve had a wide range of feedback from users who both like and dislike the changes that have been made.

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  9. Upcoming changes to Ö÷²¥´óÐã News Online

    Upcoming changes to Ö÷²¥´óÐã News Online

    In December we started inviting users of tablet devices to switch from the existing website to the new responsive solution and their feedback has been very positive.

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  10. Rolling out Responsive Ö÷²¥´óÐã News worldwide: what have we learnt so far?

    We’ve found that much of the original code deployed has had to be refactored to allow for styling differences to be applied rapidly across indexes on all 27 of the language sites in a way that works at all different types of browsers.

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  11. Storyline data model: Sharing the ontology for Ö÷²¥´óÐã News

    A new data model concept called ‘Storyline’ which we hope will provide the basis for innovative online journalism partnerships.

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