Interactive collaboration tool for innovative live reporting

The challenge:

BILD Online wanted to let its readers participate live in the creation of a story or news about a major event. Instead of just presenting the finished article, the aim was to give readers an insight into the journalistic work and the creation of the article in real time.

Our solution:

SPRYLAB developed a moderation tool that allows the editorial team to publish individual journalists’ contributions to the BILD Slack chat directly on the website in a live widget. Contributions can include text, images or videos. This feature helps to increase traffic to the website.

What makes it special:

Journalism on a new level and in absolute real time. Scalability of the service according to website traffic to ensure high quality and availability.  

An overview of the project:

• Interactive collaboration tool for innovative live reporting based on the AWS Serverless Cloud
• Contributions (text, images, videos) are submitted by journalists in the BILD Slack editorial chat
• The editorial team moderates the contributions and plays them live on the website. The reader thus participates in the creation process of the live reporting
• AWS Lambda (serverless) ensures flexible scalability for high visitor numbers

Technical details:

• AWS Serverless / Lamda for fast scalability and high availability  
• Frontend: Angular JS
• Integration: Slack App

About Bild

Bild is the highest-circulation daily newspaper in Germany and was also the highest-circulation newspaper in Europe for a long time. It has a paid circulation of 1,053,897 copies. The national tabloid has been published by Axel-Springer-Verlag in Berlin since June 1952. The paid digital service Bild plus was used by 603,284 readers in April 2022. The publisher’s long-term plans include the discontinuation of the printed newspaper and the transition to a fully digital offering from the Bild Group.