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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16d

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

Chart shows how demographics and party identification are related to getting news from social media sites.

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Sean Canty @seancanty.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!!

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 29

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 :)

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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

www.theguardian.com

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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

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...

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 19

It was posted here in case they message you (they’re messaging loads of my followers)

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

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

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · Aug 14

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...

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.

www.niemanlab.org

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 4

Coucou les gars 😎 French Sophiana is here!

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Aug 3

This is wonderful to hear!!!

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Yannick Mac @yannickmac.bsky.social · Aug 1

@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 👍

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

Till then:

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · Jul 22

Dear Jeff Bezos …

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Jul 16

"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...

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...

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Jul 13

🎧: 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...

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · Jul 12

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/

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World Editors Forum @worldeditorsforum.bsky.social · Jul 12

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...

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...

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