Sophia Smith Galer

Yes, we have lots of detail about which groups are getting news from various social media sites!
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Can highly recommend listening to this.

Top university sector voices like @viviennestern.bsky.social are very clear and articulate about the local economic role universities play.

My brand new Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!

My brand news Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!

It’s accurate in that the new face of news is literally not my face

the AI bio losers have come for me - as one follower put it “why do you look like a Democrat candidate” 🙃 Amazon: you’re a joke!!

I'm so happy to announce the winners of the Sophiana x Women in Journalism fellowship.

I promised I’d pay my Georgina Henry Award win forward - here we go! Vertical video training & Sophiana access for 6 months for my 14 fellows :)

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer

The Guardian asked me to write about multilingualism in the UK. You don’t need to ask me twice! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unfair grading and its impact in Languages Imagine you are selling petrol for £1.40 a litre, and the other garages down the street all sell it for £1.30. Should you be surprised or c...

If your pupils get a grade lower in MFL than their other subjects, that is in line with how the grades are handed out.

If your pupils got the same grade as in other subjects, that means someone else's pupils are getting 2 grades lower.
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It was posted here in case they message you (they’re messaging loads of my followers)

yuck - I guess it was inevitable but the deepfake ghouls have finally come for me. There are so many fake accounts on TikTok pretending to me - but pretty sure this is the first to use AI in this way.

niche-blending - video storytelling around language drives huge audience engagement - so does food - so why not combine the two?

A theme emerging from #LingComm25 is "niche-blending" aka combining linguistics with something else to stand out more

Started with Sophia Smith Galer applied to linguistics + food, picked up by @languageatplay.de re linguistics + videogames

Independent journalist Molly White knows how to follow the memecoin The cryptocurrency and tech newsletter Citation Needed is pay-what-you-want. White currently has about 29,000 subscribers including about 2,400 paid subscribers despite the lack of a paywall.

I'm a huge fan of @molly.wiki. The work she does is inspiring - and this is a great interview. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/inde...

Bet you’ve never seen an artichoke flower before! Here it is, growing in my garden, having defied the English frost after planting it last year.

Coucou les gars 😎 French Sophiana is here!

This is wonderful to hear!!!

@sophiasgaler.bsky.social - first time trying out Sophiana & found it a great, simplistic tool to use. Especially for journalists, it opens up creative doorways which have previously only been ajar; there is now no excuse for trad journalists to abstain from content creation 👍

I have a million thoughts about Dave leaving WAPO and will write something up tomorrow

Till then:

Dear Jeff Bezos …

I blew up on TikTok with journalism — here's how you can, too I’ll never forget the day when an editor at the BBC told a 25-year-old me that journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok because “there’s so much misinformation on there.” By that point, I had maybe 10,000 f...

"I'll never forget the day when an editor at the BBC told a 25-year-old me that journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok because 'there’s so much misinformation on there.'”

I wrote about my career, and the wild attitudes I’ve encountered along the way, for IJNet.

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🎧: In the age of TikTok, how can newsrooms earn attention?

On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social are joined by ‪@sophiasgaler.bsky.social‬ to discuss vertical video as a form of journalism: www.prospectmagazine...

The grown ups being incapable of not being nerds (alas still not winning) @stephenkb.bsky.social @cathynewman.bsky.social 3/

MP @kirstysnp.bsky.social not knowing what “no cap” means 2/

A few weeks ago I hosted Have I Got Fake News For You in the House of Commons for @shoutoutuk.bsky.social. Four Year 12s were pitted against journalists and politicians in a quiz on media literacy. Highlights: @stephenkb.bsky.social’s endless quest for greatness 1/

Journalists: ‘It’s time to muck in – there should be way more of us (on social media)’ – Sophia Smith Galer 2025-07-11. At the forefront of a deep shift in the news landscape, one of journalism’s biggest personalities – also one of its biggest champions – Sophia Smith Galer is going beyond advocacy to appli...

At the forefront of a deep shift in the news landscape, one of journalism’s biggest personalities – also one of its biggest champions – @sophiasgaler.bsky.social goes beyond advocacy to application with Sophiana, an app to help journalists build audiences...
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appropriate reading as I fly to the AI For Good Summit in Geneva from @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

I am FoI'ing the BBC on some issues to do with Israel-Gaza. DG Tim Davie told MPs on Mar 4: “Part of what I have tried to do for the BBC is to be a guardian of true impartiality through thick and thin, and that requires being completely transparent.“ But the BBC has so far withheld this information

A new tool lets your favorite AI model talk with 2 million articles from The Guardian The intersection of news archives and large language models is a topic for the courtroom these days — but it can also bring useful overlaps.

New by me —>

I made a tool that lets your favorite AI models talk with the full-text archives of @theguardian.com — more than 2 million articles!

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It’s yours! :)

Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust - Nature Human Behaviour Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.

Counterpoint to the bashing of social media:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...