Karolina Iwaszko
Executive Product Manager
Blog posts in total 8
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Building a more personal and local BBC News website
We are making some changes to the way we provide local news, sport and other location driven information, offering a view of what’s relevant and important to a person from the perspective of their locality, allowing users to define how close to them they want their news to be.
BBC Travel Online: Update
BBC Travel announces the changes to the travel and traffic information online. The BBC Travel site will close in February 2017, however regular reports on the road, rail and other modes of transport can be found on local news offering online.
BBC News app: update
The latest update to the News App, pushed to the app stores, includes accessibility improvements to voice over and keyboard accessibility. These are the first improvements as part of an ongoing accessibility review.
BBC News app: new 4.1 widget for Android goes live
Following the launch of the new version of the BBC News App last week we have been collecting and analysing feedback . One of the themes that has been repeated frequently was lack of a 4:1 widget for Android. We have just released this widget to the Play Store.
New BBC News app starts to roll out in the UK
This is no longer about choosing just between local, national or even global news. This is now all about your news.
New BBC Travel Website
For reporting incidents we use TPEG messages that we have extended in a way to enrich data will all necessary details. TPEG (Transport Protocol Experts Group) is a standardised format for travel news reports, allowing incidents relating to many different modes of transport to be captured in a st...
BBC Travel beta updated
We have also introduced a new feature of ordering the incidents by severity, distance or incident type, which will allow the users to customise the service in a way that works best for them in particular circumstances (for example “sort by severity” is a default state on desktop but we believe t...
Travel beta: a new version of the BBC travel and traffic website
The first change regular users may notice is that we’ve simplified the name from BBC Travel News to BBC Travel, but we have also completely redesigned the user experience and technical architecture of the service
