Assistant Editor, News AI @BBCNews
Cardiff, Wales
Joined May 2011
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Congratulations to @jonnymcguigan, @thomas_geraint & team!
They won Best Innovative Use of Cloud and were Highly Commended for Best Innovation Project for ‘Watch Your Count Live’ – a General Election project putting a camera at every count.
@Broadcastnow Tech Innovation Awards.
Great to see the Camera at Every Count vision become a reality on General Election night!
Here's a quick summary of the output. #BBC #Election2024
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BBC election coverage ingests 369 live feeds with @TVUNetworks
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The @BBC has revealed how it remotely managed 369 live feeds from across the UK during last week’s General Election. The feeds were streamed on BBC iPlayer, the BBC News website, and transmitted to a giant virtual mosaic screen at Broadcasting House.
broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/how-…
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The iPhone was crucial to the BBC's coverage of the 2024 UK general election, with kits including it used to broadcast live from the vote counts. - updated with more information from the BBC! By @MalcolmOwen
appleinsider.com/articles/24…
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🗳️ 369 Counts, live, for the first time ever
🗳️ 5 New VOD formats launched
🗳️ 1,000+ Hours of non-stop live coverage
🗳️ Tens of millions of views!
So proud of the @BBCNews Streaming & BBC News on @BBCiPlayer VOD teams and their coverage of Election 2024
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m…
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Big shout out to the BBC's @thomas_geraint for joining us today, and updating us on drone journalism, and stories he has covered including in stormy Shetland. Love the remote camera work.
ALT Discussion on drone journalism
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Producer & Director @thomas_geraint
Presenter @NelliBird
Exec Producer @trystanyoung
Graphics: Aoife McKenna
Additional Editing: Alex Knill
Drone: James Harries
BBC Wales Commissioner: Nick Andrews
A @BBCWalesNews production for BBC News on iPlayer
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0…
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Logan Mwangi was five years old, when he was murdered by the people he should have been able to trust
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0…
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🌡️ What could our weather forecasts look like in 2050?
More: bbc.in/3qtcHan
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Update here on a story that @thomas_geraint and I covered back in August 2017 ...
Solicitors face action over 'quick sale' property scheme bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-5675…
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'Thank you, from the bottom of my heart'
Coronavirus survivor Davide Compagnone thanks the doctor who brought him back from the brink of death
Read more here: bbc.in/3iuI5z8
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If you want to start your Friday the right way, tissues ready for this; reuniting #Covid19 survivor Davide Compagnone from Cardiff with @dr_mattmorgan from @UHWCriticalCare captured by @thomas_geraint #NHSThankYou #NHSheroes #coronavirus
Davide nearly died with Covid-19 - now he's met the doctor who saved his life
bbc.in/2C0vHWM
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How #HisDarkMaterials costume-makers are helping create scrubs for #NHS workers
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'It's OK to not be OK'
Anna-Louise Bates' life changed forever when her husband and son were killed by a car
Geraint Thomas retweeted
Bwriad Llinos â'r plant ydy cadw'n bositif drwy greu darluniau ar y wal.
🌈🤗🤗🤗🌈
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BREAKING
Emiliano Sala: The final crash report Footballer's plane hit the water at 270mph... the crash was "not survivable"
More: bbc.in/2wSoGEU