Career
She began a journalist in 1990 at Perth radio 6PR and later became Australia"s youngest female news director During her time at 6PR, Sonia also worked at Channel Seven Perth as a journalist for Seven News weekends, and also read sports news for Seven’s Footy Show in 1994. She later worked for regional station GWN as a news anchor before returning to 6PR and the Channel 9 in 2000.
She worked initially as a stand-by news anchor, but later became weeknight anchor, and with Dixie Marshall was part of Australia"s first female duo news team from 2003-2007.
In January 2008, Nine announced that Vinci would host a new Western Australian version of A Current Affair. However, it was announced in July that Vinci would not proceed with her new position, with a view to "spending more time with the kids".
