ABOUT SOPHIA

Journalism is Sophia’s greatest passion. From the moment she wakes up on Friday mornings at 6 a.m. to anchor Boston University’s show, until the late hours when she’s editing articles for writers, she’s constantly thinking about the news. Growing up, Sophia was heavily involved in various forms of the Arts, including dancing, theater, production and writing. Trading in her sparkly dance costumes for navy blue blazers was a bit hard at first, but she now knows that sitting behind the desk is where she’s meant to be.

Sophia is a senior, studying both Journalism and Film/TV. She is a Harold C. Case Scholarship Recipient, one of only 14 in her grade. Sophia is also a Teaching Assistant for Tina McDuffie’s Broadcast Journalism Courses. She recently became a News Writer for WHDH (Channel 7) as part of a BU independent study. Within this role, she writes anchor ledes, VOs/VOSOTs and story teases for WHDH’s live afternoon broadcasts. 

Sophia is a former Guest Booking/Domestic Newsgathering Intern with CBS News for Summer 2024, after also interning with them during Summer and Fall 2023. She arranged 13 live and taped interviews for “CBS Mornings,” “CBS Evenings” and “CBS News 24/7.”  She identified people who CBS News should be interviewing and conducted pre-interviews with them, including witnesses at Donald Trump’s first assassination attempt and two voter panels in Raleigh, NC and Milwaukee, WI. On the daily, she pitched stories/social media flags and shadowed producers.

Back at BU, Sophia is a Co-Executive Producer and Co-Anchor for BU’s only live, 30-minute morning show called “Good Morning BU.” She leads a team of 54 writers, correspondents and crew with script writing, pitch ideas and package assistance. Sophia also was a Co-Executive Producer for the live, 60-minute election special called “United We Vote.” With a team of 43 students, she helped book six expert interviews and conducted the interview with CEO of “The Texas Tribune” Sonal Shah.

Through a few BU courses, Sophia has had the opportunity to become a Contributing News Reporter for the Boston Neighborhood Network. She pitches, reports, edits and produces community-based packages around the Greater Boston area for BNN’s Friday afternoon show, “Boston Neighborhood Network News.” Since working with BNN in February 2024, 7 of her packages have been aired. 

Sophia is also the Editor-in-Chief for the BU News Service, an online, student-driven multimedia publication. She manages 9 editors and 16 reporters during weekly pitch meetings. She edits anywhere between 4-8 stories to publish each week — whether it’s articles, video packages, photo galleries or podcasts. Sophia oversaw a newsroom of 70 contributors on Election Day 2024 to produce 60 stories in multimedia formats throughout Boston, Washington, D.C., New Hampshire and Australia. Prior to that, she spearheaded a team of 10 editors and 30 reporters/photographers to New Hampshire for the Presidential Primary where 20 pieces were published in 24 hours.