Angela Chao is the Head of Global News and Director of Content at the world’s leading health and wellness property — Healthline Media, part of RVO Health, which includes publications such as Healthline, Medical News Today, Psych Central, and Healthgrades.
In her current role, Angela leads all aspects of the news content, operations, and strategies, while developing and supporting new, priority content products and business initiatives through cross-functional and people leadership. She oversees an international team of editors, freelance writers, fact-checkers with journalism/life sciences/medical credentials, podcast producers, and coordinates global coverage of the latest health and medical news and research across several brands.
Angela is a digital pioneer who’s led numerous cutting-edge, large-scale content experiments across web, social media, OTT and emerging platforms that resulted in exponential audience and revenue growth for multiple news organizations. Before joining the Healthline Media team in January 2022, Angela worked as an executive producer, digital journalist, and newsroom leader at various media outlets, including Tegna’s NBC Atlanta, The Weather Channel/weather.com, Lonely Planet, USA TODAY Network, and AOL.
Angela has a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University and a master’s from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is a current member of the ONA Board of Directors.