Congratulations to our 2024 Georgina Henry Award Winner!
Women in Journalism is delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Women in Journalism Georgina Henry prize for innovation is Sophia Smith Galer. She won with her project Sophina:
”When asked about the main barriers, journalists cited time and lack of training. This led me to an idea: what if I could build a tool that significantly reduced the time required to create videos? What if it incorporated strategies for virality, enabling those without TikTok experience to succeed immediately? This is why I built Sophina, my AI chatbot that can help anyone who wants to make the internet a better place make high quality video content that can reach the masses. Sophina combines an LLM with a knowledge base trained on my dataset of 100 successful TikTok video scripts to turn large bodies of text, such as documentary transcripts or newspaper articles, into scripts that are optimised for going viral on social media.”
The judges described this idea as an exciting innovation in an important new journalistic field. Not only does it explore the commercial benefits of AI, this eponymous innovation is also dedicated to combating disinformation . The recipient is also committed to helping other women journalists access the latest AI technology to help them make better social videos.
Sophia said: “Last night I won the Georgina Henry award for digital innovation from
I’m so honoured. The prize money changes everything and means I can work on more AI innovation to help journalists fight disinformation and make viral video. Watch this space!!!”
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