About Sophie

Sophie Benjamin is a writer and multimedia journalist based in Rockhampton, Queensland.

She currently works as a journalist for Southern Cross Austereo, compiling and reading ten news bulletins a day for their Sea FM and Hot FM commercial radio stations in the Rockhampton/Gladstone region and the Mackay/Whitsundays region.

Sophie has covered floods, bushfires and everything in between as a cross-media reporter and radio producer for APN Digital and ABC Local Radio.

Her writing on music and pop culture has appeared in Rave Magazine and Triple J Magazine.

Raised in country Queensland, Sophie is passionate about the need for quality journalism in rural and regional areas.

See Sophie’s CV on LinkedIn,  check out her personal blog or hear more of her audio work.