BBC Pop Up

BBC Pop Up is the BBC's mobile bureau that crowdsources story ideas from its audience. It consists of a team of video journalists that create documentaries in different countries. They hold town-hall meetings and teach university classes and crowdsource their stories. The bureau was created in 2014 by the BBC's Matt Danzico and Benjamin Zand and has since visited the United States, Canada, Kenya, Russia and India. The current Editor and Head of BBC Pop Up is Benjamin Zand.

The stories covered by BBC Pop Up have been wide-ranging, from current affairs, to travel to breaking news. The programme airs on BBC News and BBC World News as well as the BBC website. For each destination it makes short online documentaries as well as one 24-minute documentary. Each video is produced, filmed and edited by the video journalists working on the team. The bureau has a team of about six people and is aided by the BBC's language service employees on embarking to a new destination. It doesn't have traditional reporters or presenters and attempts to reach a new, younger demographic on BBC News and BBC World News.