Joanna Geary

Geary in 2026

Joanna Geary is an English journalist. She is head of content and audience at Bloomberg since 2022.[1]

Geary started as a business journalist at the Birmingham Post,[2] after working in admin for a post-production house and volunteering as a journalist.[3] At the Post she also worked as a creative industries correspondent[3] and handled the online community. One community member was particularly critical and offensive, and she invited him to their offices, where he was polite in person.[4][5] She left in 2009,[2] then worked at The Times as communities editor[6] and web development editor,[7] including working on its move to digital subscriptions. She left in October 2011 and joined The Guardian the following month, working on digital skills in editorial[6] first as digital development editor, and then as social and community editor.[7][8]

She joined Twitter in London in September 2013 as news partnerships manager.[9][7][8] Her Twitter handles have been @bhamjoanna, @timesjoanna, @guardianjoanna, and @joannauk.[5] At Twitter, Geary was head of Twitter Moments in Europe at its launch in 2015.[10] She worked on content curation and worked with the trust and safety team to reduce misinformation.[1] In 2016, her former employer, the Birmingham Post, named her as one of the ten most influential people from the West Midlands in social media.[2] By 2019, she moved to New York as director of curation, managing a global team.[11] She was interviewed by Tara Lockhart for the chapter "Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Twitter-Sphere" in the 2021 book Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation And Disinformation.[12] Her team was made redundant from Twitter when Elon Musk bought the company in 2022.[1]

In May 2026 she gave a keynote at Media Party New York on the tension between providing content through agentic AI and for human communities.[13]

Geary went to university in Birmingham.[3] She founded Hacks/Hackers London.[7] She is married.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Barber, Lionel; Rusbridger, Alan (19 October 2023). "Disinformation on X, and the power of the Telegraph's Barclay brothers". Prospect.
  2. 1 2 3 "Birmingham Post Power 250: Social Media". Birmingham Post. 1 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 O'Donovan, Caroline (1 October 2013). "Q&A: Guardian social and community editor Joanna Geary heads off to Twitter U.K." Niemann Lab.
  4. ↑ Binns, Amy (2012). "DON'T FEED THE TROLLS! Managing troublemakers in magazines' online communities" (PDF). Journalism Practice. 6 (4): 547–562. doi:10.1080/17512786.2011.648988.
  5. 1 2 Bradshaw, Paul; Rohumaa, Liisa (2013). The Online Journalism Handbook; Skills to Survive and Thrive in the Digital Age. Taylor & Francis. p. 83. ISBN 9781317864110.
  6. 1 2 Bartlett, Rachel (22 September 2011). "Times' Joanna Geary announces move to Guardian". JournalismUK.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Twitter's Geary a 'game-changer'". WAN-IFRA. 20 May 2014.
  8. 1 2 Bartlett, Rachel (6 September 2013). "Guardian's Joanna Geary to join Twitter UK". JournalismUK.
  9. ↑ McCabe, Maisie (6 September 2013). "Bruce Daisley promoted to UK country manager at Twitter". Campaign. Archived from the original on 2019-10-18.
  10. ↑ Burrell, Ian (15 December 2015). "Twitter Moments launches in UK, as company hopes to take on news services with curated slideshows". The Independent.
  11. 1 2 Ortutay, Barbara (11 February 2019). "Twitter's curation director blurs the lines of work-life balance". The Associated Press.
  12. ↑ Vázquez Hernández, Jess (19 January 2022). "Review by "Literacy and pedagogy in an age of misinformation and disinformation," Edited by Tara Lockhart, Brenda Glascott, Chris Warnick, Juli Parrish, and Justin Lewis; Lockhart, T., Glascott, B., Warnick, C., Parrish, J., & Lewis, J. (Eds.) (2021). Parlor Press". Communication Design Quarterly Review. 9 (4): 17-18. doi:10.1145/3487213.3487217.
  13. ↑ "Joanna Geary on "The Big Split": How Agentic AI is Redefining News Value". Media Party. 22 May 2026.
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