Basile Simon walks through the process of building a new tool that aims to help reporters cover beats, and that was prompted by work by Knight-Mozilla Fellows and a presentation at Hacks/Hackers London.

The BBC News Labs team explores ways of exposing linked data in public-facing election coverage, and encounters some interesting challenges.

I was asked to join BBC News Labs a couple a weeks ago to work on a project that, when it was first briefly explained to me by email, left me clueless about what it was about. (Imagine the discomfort before my job interview with Matt Shearer, Innovation Manager at the Lab.) The project is called #newsVane—and yes, we refer to it with the hash sign every time, don’t ask me why.