Sofia Hariz is an acclaimed multimedia entertainment journalist with over a decade of experience working with several journalistic outlets across the world. Sofia’s journalistic work was first published by Aftenposten, one of Norway’s largest magazines, as a teenager. She would go on to have her poetry published in a book from Aftenposten at the age of 15.
Sofia graduated from Kingston University London with a First Class degree in Journalism, where her focus was entertainment journalism for online publications. Sofia served as the Entertainment Editor for River Newspaper, where she produced the paper’s first ever full page dedicated to video games, containing stories she wrote.
Sofia started working for Gamereactor in 2013, where she produced some of the magazine’s most popular video game articles and film reviews, and created the magazine’s first ever vox pop, where she photographed and interviewed gamers in Oslo, Norway. Sofia also worked as a copy editor, using her bilingual skills to translate articles from English, Swedish and Danish to Norwegian.
Sofia has later gone on to cover other games industry events, such as Gamescom, E3, MCM London Comic Con, EGX and more.
Outside of video game journalism, Sofia has also worked in other industries. Sofia worked at Akershus Eiendom, Norway’s leading commercial real estate agency, where she established the company’s social media presence, including creating the company’s blog, which has been quoted in several or Norway’s largest media outlets. During this time she also produced Information Memorandums, and newspaper ads, acted as a social media strategy adviser that helped with SEO optimization, and worked on website and memorandum redesign and branding. She also worked as a Video Producer for MailOnline’s Showbiz section, covering celebrity news, movies, television, red carpets and more.
Sofia was a speaker at the Inven Global Esports Conference’s “The Female Faces of Esports” panel, and has also spoken at other industry events, including GeeKon in Norway and IndieCade in Los Angeles. Sofia has been featured as a games journalist in videos and podcasts that have attracted a viewership over 100,000 combined, and has produced videos that have seen a viewership of over 50,000 per video, for entertainment media outlets like Easy Allies, Game Talk Live, Fanbyte and more.
Sofia currently works as a freelance video game journalist, on-air host, and streamer in Los Angeles. She is also working on her first narrative fiction game, and a full-cast radio play.
