Celebrity & Entertainment Team · Team Lead
Sofia Marquez
Head of Entertainment Content · Madrid, Spain
Leads the celebrity and entertainment writers, sets the sourcing rules and reviews every profile before it goes live.
Leads the Celebrity & Entertainment team · reports to Sophia Bennett
About Sofia
Sofia runs the part of the agency where accuracy is most visible. A celebrity profile is read by fans who know the subject well, and a single wrong birthday, partner or film credit can undo the trust a whole site has built. Her job is to make sure that does not happen.
She spent the first part of her career in entertainment journalism, covering film festivals, music releases and television, where every claim had to survive an editor and often a publicist. She brought that standard with her when she moved into SEO-led content.
Seven years in, she plans the team’s work, sets its sourcing rules and gives the final read on every profile.
What she works on
- Leading the celebrity writing team
- Sourcing and fact-checking standards
- Final edit on every celebrity profile
- Entertainment news and explainers
- Content planning for celebrity sites
Background
How she got here
Education
Degree in Journalism, followed by a postgraduate course in cultural and entertainment reporting.
Early work
Entertainment reporting on film, music and television, where every claim had to be sourced.
Into SEO content
Celebrity biographies and explainers written for search, without lowering the reporting standard.
Now
Head of Entertainment Content at Infinity Linkers, leading the Celebrity & Entertainment team.
Her team
Celebrity & Entertainment team
Sofia leads Kiri Walker, who writes celebrity profiles and entertainment explainers; Hira Saleem, who handles research and fact-checking; and Hannah Brooks, who covers lifestyle and fashion. She reports to co-founder Sophia Bennett.
Approach
If it cannot be sourced, it does not run
The team’s rule comes straight from Sofia’s newsroom years: every fact in a profile needs a source the editor can check, and rumours stay out unless they are clearly labelled as such. It makes the work slower, and it makes it last.
Away from work she goes to more film screenings than she can justify, plays padel badly and reads every festival programme cover to cover.