Sophia Smith Galer

Sophia Smith Galer is an award-winning journalist, writer, speaker, and content creator, credited for pioneering astute, engaging journalism on TikTok.

British Vogue named her one of the 25 most influential women in the UK and was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022. Sophia was awarded a British Journalism award for Innovation of the Year in 2021 for her drive and push for representation in newsrooms for younger audiences and the stories and platforms that matter to them.

Sophia began her career reporting across the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World News and building Webby-winning BBC social media channels before joining VICE News as a senior reporter, where she was until February 2024.

Her multilingual reporting across Spanish, Arabic and Italian has helped her get to the story first in English-language media several times, including her reporting on a catcalling episode in Madrid that won over 25 million TikTok and Instagram views.

She is a regular commentator across Sky News’ Breakfast Show and Friday Night With Niall Patterson, and other recent broadcasting credits include BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme, The Blindboy Podcast, and BBC’s Woman’s Hour.

In March 2024, her podcast, Where To Be A Woman, for BBC Outlook and Sounds, launched. Alongside co-host Scaachi Koul, the show pushes past the latest wellness fads to search the globe for the best wellbeing ideas and ultimately asks, where can women live their best lives?

Her exclusive reporting across health and technology has led to platform changes everywhere from TikTok to the NHS website, and her journalism around sexual and reproductive health has led to the exposure of British anti-abortion funding as well as the UK government’s secret withdrawal of millions of pounds of sex education funding.

She was the first journalist to report the misuse of political ads on TikTok during the 2020 US election, which was broadcast in her first television documentary The TikTok Election.

Sophia frequently appears as an expert on media innovation, sexual health reporting and TikTok across British news media. Her book, Losing It: Dispelling the Sex Myths that Rule Our Lives’ was published by Harper Collins in 2022 to critical acclaim and was a No.1 Amazon bestseller in its category.

She became a Visiting Fellow in 2023 for Brown University’s Information Futures Lab where she has developed resources for combating misinformation and misogyny in British schools that she delivers personally.

Sophia first spoke internationally about her work when she was invited to give a speech in Arabic at the United Nations Headquarters in New York aged just 22.

She has delivered talks from the Royal Festival Hall to Google. She also chairs panels across the year, including at the Cheltenham festivals and the Web Summit, and has hosted Q&As with everybody from the CEO of Only Fans to trainspotter Francis Bourgeois.

A regular columnist for iNews, she has recently announced her second book, How To Kill A Language, acquired by William Collins, about linguicide and language loss.

Social media - I mean. Pretty much anything here! Social media video is very in demand, so anything about that

Generational divides - I can do talks on how companies can make better content for youth audiences, what matters to Gen Z (and what they'd like to see in a workplace), and initiatives big organisations can adopt to better serve young employees (I spoke about my experience reverse mentoring and being involved in youth committees as well as annual reviews that measure a whole team's performance rather than just the youngest person's, I gave an example of how I was the only person in the team expected to be reviewed on 'innovation')

Misinformation - I can talk about what news media is getting right and/or wrong about combating misinformation, how tech platforms aren't doing enough to combat misinformation, how we can ALL combat misinformation on our daily scrolls and the AI misinformation threats that are being posed right now

AI - I can speak about how journalists and any creative individual can use generative AI for social good/to improve their work. I can also talk about Big Tech not developing AI tools in a way that respects social media users + how companies can and should consider human rights-focused tech design

Language - I can talk about changing language in the workplace, generational language differences, endangered languages and language loss, how social media is changing language, how to learn a language, how workplaces can support multilingual teams, how linguistic health is important to our wellbeing/the benefits of learning a language in your spare time even if you don't identify as a 'linguist'

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