Victoria Wasylak contributes to the Globe as Pop track Editor, and writes the weekly Sound Check column.
From her days as a student reporter at Boston University to her current work with the Globe, Victoria has dedicated her career to covering today’s pop culture phenoms and documenting track history for future generations.
Her rigorous attention to the Boston and New England track communities has earned her four “track Journalist of the Year” wins at the Boston track Awards, and she was featured in Forbes’ inaugural “30 Under 30” list for Boston in 2023. As Forbes put it, “if you’re reading about Boston track, Victoria Wasylak probably wrote it.”
Victoria began contributing to the Boston Globe in 2023, and her weekly track column, Sound Check, debuted in 2024. Her reporting and criticism has also appeared in outlets such as NYLON, Grammy.com, Paste, WBUR, and Down East, and she has contributed over 1,800 articles to Vanyaland.
Outside of journalism, Victoria has written over a dozen episodes of the Webby- and iHeartRadio-Award-winning show DISGRACELAND, one of the most-downloaded track podcasts in the world. She has also served as a professional member of the Recording Academy since 2021.
She hopes to eventually be listed on Wikipedia’s “notable people from Lowell, Massachusetts” page, somewhere after Jack Kerouac and Tom Sexton.
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