Richard Morris

Senior Journalist working on news live streams for @BBCNews on @BBCiPlayer and News live pages.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

The one thing that has stopped me from buying this £3,499 headset without any compelling vision behind it or specific use case is the lack of backgrounds which simulate me being in Iceland.

[AppleInsider @appleinsider]

Owners of the Apple Vision Pro can now experience a whole new immersive environment, with Disney+ bringing users virtually to Iceland. By @MalcolmOwen

https://t.co/EsdQp8YvjI

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Because people keep asking me about this...
https://t.co/YB8igZSjHN

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Not sure about the choice of getting The Unknown from Willy’s Chocolate Experience to do parkour and carry around the Olympic torch. #BBCOlympics

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Sailing along the Seine, with a man playing an accordion on the bridge above has to be the most fantastically French thing to do. I love it. #BBCOlympics

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Excellent news for the BBC, and the UK, from the latest figures from GAM, the authoritative Global Audience Measure: 450 million people worldwide access the BBC each week, up 3.5 m on last year. 414 m access BBC News, up 2.5 m. BBC World Service radio is up 2.3m to 320 m.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

"It all started when they tried to install a software update to much of Earth's PCs"

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Mum has just messaged the group chat asking ‘how can I text you all if there’s an IT outage?’

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Someone’s installed an update they shouldn’t have done to an old Windows Server 2000 machine in the back end of Microsoft’s office, haven’t they?

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Looks like it has been a VERY busy day.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Larry’s enjoying the 27 degree London heat today.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

@Bron_Maher Would Sky News spending have to go up anyway just because of inflation?

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

This is why I don’t do betting on things.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

fwiw, I think Alcaraz win at Wimbledon and England win at the Euros. Let’s see.

[Marc Blank-Settle marcsettle.bsky.social @MarcSettle]

100s of BBC staff use our in-house iPhone/iPad PNg to record, edit & send video, audio & photos at broadcast standards into BBC systems
Usually 2000 items are filed a day.
Since midnight, it’s over 5,600.
Well done to all the reporters, producers & tech team behind this success.

[Marc Blank-Settle marcsettle.bsky.social @MarcSettle]

The BBC had a camera - a smartphone, of course - live-streaming pictures from every single election count.

Here is how it was done, in terms of kit. For the signal, it was a sim card bonding to wifi at the venue.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Story of the night: a candidate dressed up as Elmo standing against Sir Keir Starmer, a man who was about to become Prime Minister, got 19 votes.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Love this.

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

You may be wondering, ‘how does the BBC do a live stream on the election on polling day itself?’

Dogs. Lots and lots of dogs. Also Larry the Downing Street Cat!
https://t.co/H4SvvHYcF0

[Richard Morris @rwmorris]

Larry the Cat is in there due to strict balance and impartiality reasons.