Sosefina Fuamoli hasn't just covered the Australian music industry for fifteen years — she's actively shaped it, and she's only getting started. Sosefina Fuamoli is an award-winning Samoan-Australian music journalist, broadcaster, and industry speaker based in Melbourne. Since 2010, she has built one of the most expansive and purposeful careers in Australian music media — writing, hosting, judging, and advocating across print, radio, podcast, television, and live events, in Australia and across three continents. Her dual Samoan-Australian heritage sits at the centre of everything she does: an open-minded, community-driven approach to storytelling that has consistently championed emerging artists and a more culturally diverse music landscape. Her journalism credits read like a map of the industry's most respected platforms — Rolling Stone Australia, NME, The Australian, The Age, Junkee, Beat Magazine, Red Bull Music, The Big Issue, and more — alongside international festival coverage at SXSW, Lollapalooza, and The Great Escape. For seven years she served as Editor-in-Chief of The AU Review, building it into a genuine champion for emerging artists, writers, and photographers, before stepping into a role at triple j. She has since hosted R&B show Window Seat on 3RRR FM, The Scenario on Kiss FM, and guest-hosted on Double J — and in 2025 was appointed Music News Correspondent on ABC News 24, stepping into a role created and held for a decade by Zan Rowe. At ABC Pacific and Radio Australia, Sosefina hosts On The Record, a weekly music interview program, and created Sista Sounds — a dedicated platform amplifying women's voices across the Oceanic region that launched on International Women's Day 2024. The show is not a token spotlight, as she puts it, but a year-round haven for Pacific female artists to be seen, heard, and celebrated on their own terms. Her industry influence extends well beyond the page and the microphone. Sosefina has served as a judge for the Australian Music Prize, ARIA Awards, National Indigenous Music Awards, Music Victoria Awards, Vanda & Young Songwriting Award, and the Hilltop Hoods Initiative. She has delivered keynote addresses and facilitated panels at BIGSOUND (where she later became Conference Advisor), Splendour in the Grass, Melbourne Writers Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, BreakOut West in Canada, Going Global in New Zealand, and Reeperbahn Festival in Germany. In 2021, she co-hosted the Hit Different music culture podcast as part of the Mushroom Group. The recognition has followed. She has won the National Live Music Awards' Live Music Journalist prize twice — in 2020 and 2022 — and in 2024 took out the Emerging Talent award at the AIBs (Association of International Broadcasting) in London. Her essays have been published by the Australian Music Vault, cementing a legacy that goes beyond coverage into genuine cultural contribution. She defines success simply: "If you're happy and what you do brings you joy and peace in the same measure, that is a level of success nobody can take from you." It's a philosophy that shows in her work — and exactly the kind of clarity she brings to mentoring the next generation of music writers, broadcasters, and advocates.