Yes, we have lots of detail about which groups are getting news from various social media sites! www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

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!!!

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 :)

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

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. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...

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.

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

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!

@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'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. ijnet.org/en/story/i-b...

🎧: 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...

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/

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... wan-ifra.org/2025/07/jour...

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

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! www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-ne...

Counterpoint to the bashing of social media: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is really cool from @sophiasgaler.bsky.social - a new app that helps you quickly translate longform work into snappy video content. I just tried it out and it was simple and intuitive to use.

Proud word person here 🥰 Sophiana lets you be *both* a word person AND a video person!

Former British Journalism Award innovation winner Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social‬ launches app to help journalists connect with audiences on Tiktok and Instagram and halve production time pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Our 2024 Georgina Henry Award winner @sophiasgaler.bsky.social has launched her project - Sophiana! Sophiana is a scriptwriting and teleprompter tool that turns news articles and academic research into algorithm-ready videos.

What if journalists could beat misinformation by using the same tactics as influencers? Until now, only a few could - but today, many more will be able to (!). I’m so proud to share that Sophiana, my video-scripting app, has launched on the App Store.

this is why I don’t have a single one turned on - probably missing out on important news, but also it’s no longer costing me my digital sanity

We are kicking off the global launch event of the Digital News Report 2025. Presentation by @nicnewman, followed by a panel ft @mitalilive.bsky.social Observer's Basia Cummings, Sky News' David Rhodes and Reuters' Jane Barrett Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/w3w5Z9IpKv0

Old models of local news are collapsing. New models are emerging – but they are fragile. The @publicinterestnews.org.uk‬ team are presenting a vision for the future of local news – and how this vision can become reality. @joe-mitchell.com‬ #StrongerThings

Big day. How To Kill A Language - my book on the hurt & harm of linguicide - has been filed. Out in the UK in the spring, and US in the summer, 2026.

Macron’s at the centre of an enormous disinformation campaign at the moment - which is exactly why his team should have been hyper-vigilant towards verification, rather than feeding the frenzy with even more falsehoods. My thoughts from today’s appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

It was a huge pleasure hosting Critical Conversations with Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sage and Jester. We took on three ways to tackle misinformation - satire, research and journalism - and explored them with the brilliant Rachel Parris, Dr Julia Ebner and Jamie Bartlett.

very excited for this mega bill of a week! I'm hosting Critical Conversations for Intelligence Squared and Sage and Jester with three incredibly smart people. first one is tonight with Rachel Parris - tix still available! sageandjester.com/whats-on/

I've made this to process data I'm looking at. The top eight countries British emigrants move to vs. the language requirement for permanent settlement. Keir Starmer's announcement that immigrants will need B2 (upper intermediate) for settlement is higher than all of them.

When I studied Arabic one of the first words we learned was الغربة, poorly translated at homesickness. Really it’s the feeling of being a stranger in another land. ‎I feel like that today, in the ‘island of strangers’, where I carry citizenship and where my nonni worked so hard.

I was on Radio 4's Today Programme this weekend answering a question on many media commentators' minds...why was Gen Z so obsessed with the selection of a new Pope? well...here's why! 1/

I just talked about the yassification of the Pope on the Today programme

Only one of the speakers on this panel believes that they work for legacy media. Guess who?

I'm leaving Press Gazette! (to do another, even more niche media reporting job at A Media Operator. If you thought 'reporter covering the news industry' was obscure, try 'B2B reporter covering B2B media') As a result PG are looking for a new reporter - link here: pressgazette.co.uk/media-jobs/p...

I think there's an unspoken gender discussion in British journalism I'd love to hear more about... 🧵 some thoughts from me after the fascinating new research uncovered by @reutersinstitute.bsky.social this week about UK journalists in the 2020s 👇

I go on about this all the time + I have unsubstantiated theories (well, substantiated by my life). Like: increased harassment women face, gender roles that embroil us in unequal labour at home, male audiences. If you make content that's well known, that tells me you have time, freedom & male fans.

Career highlight this week - you can listen to me interview Hank Green, Dodie and even Rebecca Black of Friday fame in the “action-packed” Radio 4 series Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World, on every day Mon-Fri!

To celebrate YouTube’s 20th birthday, we’ve got a cracking series on how it’s changed the world next week on BBC Radio 4. Produced by George McDonagh at Overcoat Media and presented by me 😎

I’ve spent this week in the part of Italy where my family is from to finish my book. It has been full of heartwarming and sad and eerie moments, including the cloud literally descending on me as I left my Nonna’s old house.

I had an incredible time speaking at @journalismfestival.com this year in Perugia. Three panels, one very exciting user testing session, and a redacted number of nights shooting the breeze at the Brufani. Thank you for inviting me - and thanks to all those who came to watch our talks.

The Wine Society is a fantastic example of how coops can work. Especially old, posh ones. I've been a member for decades and the value and variety is consistent on.ft.com/44lcpGv How The Wine Society puts ‘passion before profit’

"Journalists and non-media affiliated content creators have been going viral for a long time. That does not mean algorithms are not hostile to the values of newsrooms. But some people, myself included, try to game the algorithms and marry them to editorial standards," says @sophiasgaler.bsky.social