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Left to right: Trevor Klein, Jason Mitchell, Dan Lucchesi, Alex Hudson, Utku Kan


ALEX HUDSON, 26


Broadcast journalist, BBC News “Alex is fizzing with great new-media ideas and has the tenacity and organisational skills to see them through,” is the verdict of Chris Berthoud, head of interactive at BBC News Starting his career at the BBC as a broadcast


assistant on Radio 4, Alex worked on Today’s use of web and social media following its relaunch and was an interactive producer for the BBC’s Election 2010 coverage. Alex has transformed Question Time with


dual-screen viewing on TV, laptop, mobile and Twitter feeds, as well as originating some of the most-read news stories on BBC Click. His key achievement is establishing and building @bbcquestiontime and the use of #bbcqt, making it the UK’s biggest news and current affairs programme on social media. The Guardian said the move gave “a new lease of life to a programme that in the past viewers could only shout at in frustration”.


UTKU CAN, 24 Digital


Kingdom and MTV has stood him well: Jason has secured development funding from Channel 4 for a late-night cross-platform format created in collaboration with fans in the week leading up to broadcast. C4 head of online Richard Davidson-Houston


says: “Jason is enough of a Hot Shot to have already set up on his own, ready to cut the path that others will follow to the future of TV.”


DAN LUCCHESI, 26


Producer/cameraman/editor, Plum Pictures Dan is “the future of TV”, according to Plum Pictures managing director Will Daws.


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“He films beautifully, edits superbly, can turn his hand to graphics and is leading the way in our push in the world of augmented- reality apps.” One of the key members of the James May’s


Man Lab team as both cameraman and editor, Dan is about to launch an augmented- reality app with May. Other successes to date include winning this year’s Youth Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest for a film he co-directed with Alex Ramseyer-Bache, and getting 1 million hits (and counting) on YouTube for a clip of Rocket Sausage, a comedy group in which he performed.


Creative director, Mint Digital In the three years he’s been at Mint since gradu- ating, Utku has worked his way up from junior developer to creative director. During this time, he has been responsible for LivePitch, an inno- vative real-time football data visualiser for the World Cup, a leading force behind Mint’s 2Screen Conference, and instrumental in the rebuild of Channel 4’s Sexperience site and the launch of The Sexperience 1000. “Utku has an uncanny vision for the possi-


bilities of combining digital and broadcast,” says Andy Bell, chief creative officer at Mint Digital of this “omnivore of culture”. “His eye ranges across technology, design,


music, platforms, ads and brands. He’s so modern, he’s in a different time-space contin- uum to the rest of us.”


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