Victoria Sanusi is a 24-year-old news reporter at BuzzFeed News based in London. She graduated from Brunel University in 2015, during university Victoria submitted many articles to the student paper, Le Nurb. She was then made Culture Editor in her last year where she won Editor Of The Year 14/15 and Student Media Person Of The Year 14/15. Her work has been published in Pride magazine, Uxbridge Gazette and The Voice.
Victoria often writes about the black community especially black women. She has written about memes, housing, politics, mental health and colourism.
She led BuzzFeed UK's most successful Black History Month in 2017 producing over 5 million views from original content.
Projects
- Article: Meet The Black British Model Who's Smashing Barriers(Article originally published on Buzzfeed UK // Photography by Laura Gallant) “You are valid, you can do anything, you are intelligent, and you deserve to be heard.” This is what south London model Leomie Anderson wants young girls to know, especially young black girls. “Along the way you’re going to hear all these stereotypes that they like to force upon young black women – ‘you're too loud, you’re being aggressive, you’re being a diva’ –but don’t take any notice of that. Just be unapologetical
- Meet The Young Black Women Breaking Into Britain's Very White Publishing IndustryOf the thousands of books published in the UK in 2016, fewer than 100 were written by authors who aren't white, research suggests. A fresh generation of writers, however, are refusing to let their stories be sidelined. (Article originally published by BuzzfeedUK) Illustration credit: Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed It appears to be a good moment for black British writing. That's perhaps a curious statement to make in the face of research that paints a bleak picture of diversity within the publishing
Projects credited in
- This International Women’s Day, meet the 200 Women Redefining the Creative Industry in 2018Discover our 2020 list here This International Women's Day, we asked influential icons to nominate 10 trailblazing women who they believe are redefining the creator landscape. The result? A unique and incredible list of 200 trailblazing women breaking barriers and inspiring change! Only 36% of jobs in the creative sector are currently filled by women. At the top of the tree there’s an even bigger problem - women make up only 11% of Creative Directors. In an attempt to change this, our month-lo165
- We Asked These Women To Explain What Their Best Friends Mean To ThemExcerpt from the full article posted by Buzzfeed Words: Victoria Sanusi Images: Laura Gallant8
Skills
- Writing