Coverage and mentions of my work on quickQuote, autoEdit, and BBC Digital Paper Edit, and profiles from organisations I've worked with.
Awards
- Guardian Student Media Awards 2015 — Student Media Startup of the Year, for quickQuote: "a project that allows individuals to automatically generate interactive video quotes"
Press coverage
- The Future of Augmented Journalism: A guide for newsrooms in the age of smart machines — Associated Press (AP Insights), by Francesco Marconi & Alex Siegman: "AutoEdit, an open-source editor developed by Knight-Mozilla fellow Pietro Passarelli while at Vox Media, uses speech to text to automate routine post-production actions like captioning videos or selecting meaningful quotes from a video to attract readers."
- 5 digital storytelling ideas from Build the News — journalism.co.uk, on the Build the News hackathon: "'I have a long-standing interest in working with transcriptions', said Pietro Passarelli, one of the team members and current MSc Computer Science student at University College London."
- It's time to rethink how we do 'x in quotes' pieces on the web — Digital Times on Medium, cross-posted from my own blog
- A new tool from The Times of London lets you easily detect and capture quotes from a video — Nieman Lab, Sept 2015
- Tool for journalists: AutoEdit, to edit videos quicker using transcriptions — journalism.co.uk
- New open source tool to help reporters rethink quotes in stories — journalism.co.uk
- The Times digital team launches 'quoteable' image tool — journalism.co.uk
- The 2016 Knight-Mozilla fellows will bring their technical skills to newsrooms around the world — Nieman Lab, Nov 2015
- Try out this open source tool for editing video and audio transcripts — Nieman Lab, Oct 2016
- How BBC News Labs is experimenting with AMP's new "Stories" format for news — Nieman Lab
- Introducing our 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellows — OpenNews (see also my own reflection on the fellowship)
- How The Wall Street Journal is building an incubator into its newsroom, with new departments and plenty of hires — Nieman Lab, Aug 2019
- Welcoming our Strategy Team Leaders — Dow Jones press release
- Nieman Lab — all mentions
- Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) — all mentions
autoEdit / Digital Paper Edit
- BBC R&D News Labs — Digital Paper Edit project page
- BBC R&D News Labs — author profile
- BBC News Labs — Digital Paper Edit project page
- Introducing autoEdit: Video Editing Made Better — Source: An OpenNews project
- Building an Annotation Tool on a Dime — Source: An OpenNews project, co-authored with Kelsey Scherer and Kavya Sukumar at Vox Media
textAV
- Roundup: Hacking automated transcription technologies at Text AV — BBC News Labs
- Roundup: Hacking automated transcription technologies at Text AV — BBC News Labs on Medium, by Alli Shultes
- Text, Audio, and Meaning: Lessons from TextAV — Source: An OpenNews project
Other BBC News Labs projects
- Experiments with AMP's new "Stories" format for news — Tamsin Green, BBC News Labs, on the AMP Stories project
- How We Made Our "Crossing Divides" News Game — Source: An OpenNews project, on World Service, Crossing Divides
- BBC #newsHack '17 @TranscriptionBot — demo video, project writeup at BBC #newsHack '17
@TranscriptionBot - 12 ideas from our conversational user interface #newsHACK — Alli Shultes, BBC News Labs, roundup of the same hackathon
- OneStory at BBC #newsHack — demo video, project writeup at OneStory at BBC #newsHack
Institutional profiles
Also mentioned
- The Road to Trint — Mark Boas (Hyperaudio co-founder, Trint co-founder/CTO), on meeting at a Popathon hackathon and the RAI 5 interview that followed: "Pietro went on to become a 2016 Knight-Mozilla Open News fellow at Vox Media making us fellow fellows!"
Speaking
- Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party 2016 — announcement and speaker page, talk recording on YouTube ("10 Lecciones que aprendí construyendo
autoEdit.io") - Media Party 2017 — speaker page
- Computation + Journalism Symposium 2017, Northwestern University — schedule, "Tools for reporting and storytelling" panel, recording on YouTube and Vimeo, writeup at 10 Lessons from building video product tools in the newsroom
- SRCCON'17 — "Opened Captions Annotated Article system," with David Eads, talk recording on YouTube, GitBook notes and slides, project writeup at Opened Captions Annotated article system