Sophia Doak is a freelance photographer and her work is gorgeous.

Her MediaDiet tells us she’s also someone who solves things on foot. A day of editing leaves her brain foggy, so she walks it off, sometimes to jazz, sometimes to a playlist aptly named “Hot to Go”, and sometimes with the phone left at home on purpose. When a walk won’t do it, she and her housemate take the car out for laps of Bondi with the windows down, screaming the lyrics. She says it’s healing.

If you’ve read anything on Junkee in the past few months that made you stop and think, there’s a pretty decent chance Sophie Hanson had something to do with it. She’s the editor in chief there, so she’s deciding what gets commissioned, who writes it and whether it’s good enough to go out with the Junkee name on it. Before that, she spent the better part of a decade living and working in the States, which left her with an American news habit she can’t shake and (as a direct result of said news) a deep appreciation for the fact that she no longer resides there.

Annabelle Cloros is someone we found before we found her. Her Substack, Service, Please!, landed in our obsessions of the week a while back because, well, anyone who writes about Sydney’s food scene was always going to end up on our radar. A freelance hospitality publicist, editor and former managing editor at Hospitality Magazine, Annabelle has spent years embedded in the world of dining, restaurants, openings, chefs and the people keeping this city well-fed. She knows the scene because she’s in it, many nights of the week, sometimes for work and sometimes just for the love of it all.

Tess Fuller would like you to know that she is, in her own words, a decidedly anti-capitalist ass whose job is actually a large part of who she is.

As Head of Content and Brand at Teach Us Consent, she creates campaigns, partnerships and content that encourage healthier conversations about consent while advocating for policies that help reduce sexual violence.

Catherine Jia is the co-founder of sustainable fashion marketplace Mei Mei Market, a digital creator with 27,000+ followers (@project.catherine), and a consultant in the construction and building industry. She is doing all three all at once but only has a screen time of two hours a day, which, frankly, we find confronting.

This week the MediaDiet communiqué shines directly on Cameron Gibson: the brains behind renowned @slaggybookclub Instagram account (15,000-plus followers and growing fast), literary influencer and first-rate bookseller and buyer.

Strap in for one of the most unique “day-in-the-life-of” diaries we’ve published.

Madeleine is a freelance fashion writer based in Paris, splitting her time between features, interviews, exhibition catalogues and occasionally lying on her floor thinking about the meaning of fashion and life and everything in between (by her own admission!). Her inbox currently holds north of 12,000 unread emails. Welp. Structure and efficiency are, in her words, apparently missing from her daily vocabulary. Yet somehow, beautiful work keeps coming out of the chaos.

Roberta Pecoraro is someone we’ve known for a long time, so trust us when we tell you that what’s unfolding right now could be her most exciting chapter yet.

She’s Sicilian-born, Australian-raised and been modelling for over 12 years, with stints in New York and Berlin that many people would build an entire identity around. And for a while, that was her story. But, alongside the glamour of it all, Robbie was always cooking. For friends, for herself, and for the joy of things like recreating family recipes with her Nonna.

Brooke Kelly is a clinical nutritionist, recipe developer, food writer, presenter and someone with the most aesthetically pleasing website, Substack and Instagram this side of the MasterChef Australia kitchen. Are you the kind of person who makes a French press with steamed Jersey milk and medicinal mushrooms before half the city has had time to wake up? Didn’t think so.

If anyone was going to put the diet in MediaDiet, it was going to be Dominique Elissa.

Before you write her off as someone who’s optimised the joy out of living, know that Dom has been building her wellness empire from the other side of something harder. Anxiety defined most of her 20s and the rituals that now shape her mornings and evenings aren’t blatant aesthetic choices but the things that worked for her life when she really needed them to.

Eliza Livingstone is SKMG’s newest Account Executive, our resident Gen Z lens on culture, and the person we’ve tasked with breathing new life into our socials and content engine. She likes to get her news from Instagram… she swears it’s all fact-checked.

Nick Tsindos has spent over 11 years as a freelance photographer and visual director – work you’ve likely seen across the likes of Provider Store, Mud, Handsom, Westhill, some very renowned publications and in a handful of exhibitions – before recently landing at Assembly Label. He knows how to see things. He knows how to shoot things. He also reckons he knows how to balance his life, which we’ll let you be the judge of.

Adam Della-Grotta once said he’d do a week’s internship at SKMG for shits and giggles. Then he actually showed up. Surprise, surprise. Four days straight with us featuring questions, focus and a part of his brain he swore he’d pissed away years ago. Turns out he’s still somewhat got it.

Lola Abbey is the designer and owner of Dady Bones, a jewellery brand she runs from a little desk downstairs in her home, where her days are split between making things with her hands and trying very hard not to open Pinterest. Or Instagram. Or whatever else might delay the actual work she sat down to do. She knows this about herself. She is not yet troubled enough to fix it.

You have it on good authority that Ben Liebmann’s media consumption is not so much a diet as it is a full-service buffet with no closing time.

He’s the founder of Understory, an international advisory working across media, entertainment, hospitality and culture. He also makes television, including the award-winning Omnivore for Apple TV, writes on Substack (when the mood strikes), and eats at restaurants with a frequency that even makes us look bad… which, for the record, doesn’t happen a lot.

Nick studied journalism and anthropology but now he works in climate, energy and environmental policy for government, which feels like a fairly logical outcome for someone who still loves social science but has made peace with the idea that traditional journalism is in its death throes “because of the likes of Murdoch, Bezos, Musk and Ellison buying up everything we see and read”.

Bronte is never far from her handbag, and we will tell you why. She’s known affectionately to one SKMG partner as Bronte Handbag, a reputation built among friends for coming as a package deal with (you guessed it) her handbag. The name stuck hard enough to become an Instagram handle, which makes it feel less like an inside joke and more like a public declaration of love to an accessory.

Rachel Cham (we usually drop the Rachel) wakes up online and goes to bed online. Instagram before breakfast, TikTok affirmations before coffee, Spotify for mood-setting, Love Island for decompression. Somewhere between all that she’s running comms for Ksubi.

Bella Thomas lives the kind of way that makes you want to slow down a bit when you read about it. Not because it’s exactly quiet – she’s been modelling for a decade and building a creative career online since before Instagram even realised it needed creators – but because she approaches everything with a kind of tender intentionality that feels increasingly rare these days.

Alexander Fletcher is a man powered entirely by Pinterest boards and sheer geezer determination. A director and founder of 360° brand, creative and strategy business, SUB:BIO STUDIOS, he’s worked with the likes of ASICS, Hidden NY, Needles, Up There Store and more in the last year alone. Alexander runs, he boxes, and he can quote more from The Sopranos than you can throw some gabagool at.